CWA approves fiscal sustainability recommendations

When San Diego County residents, employees, and visitors conserve water the San Diego County Water Authority does not need to purchase as much water to meet the demand. That increases the chance that water will be available for drinking, cleaning, irrigating, and other purposes, but the reduction in SDCWA water sales to CWA member agencies decreases revenue for the agency which has fixed costs.

In an effort to avoid a situation where conservation resulting in a decrease in water usage leads to the need to increase rates, the CWA convened a fiscal sustainability task force to develop a revised...