Court awards $188.3 million plus interest to Water Authority in rate case victory  

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled yesterday, Wed., July 15, in a tentative decision that he would require the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to pay the Water Authority $188.3 million plus interest for illegal water rates MWD charged from 2011 to 2014.

"San Diego has proven by a preponderance of the evidence that it was in fact damaged by paying conveyance rates that were higher than Met could have set pursuant to applicable law and regulation," Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow wrote in today's tentative decision.

In April 2014, Judge Karnow ruled that MWD's...