Metropolitan Water District moves forward on rate increases in April despite plea from S.D. County to cut spending instead

*This article was provided to the Village News by the office of the San Diego County Water Authority

A day after hearing heartfelt testimony from several dozen speakers from the San Diego region, the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California board of directors voted March 13 to follow its own administrative code and vote on adoption of its next two-year budget and rate increases in April. The recommended budget includes two more years of rate increases, "averaging" 7.5 percent for 2013 and another 5 percent in 2014.

Following the board’s decision to keep the budget rate adoption...