New Orleans street icon Grandpa Elliott (left) sings with Playing For Change at the Santa Monica Pier during the season kick-off of the 25th Anniversary Twilight Dance Series on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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“This 5 year doubling of water fees will hopefully reduce demand, fund the aging water infrastructure improvement needed for the imaginary State-required population boom, and put us in a somewhat better bargaining position for the few drops left when the regional water supply really collapses. But it also puts our residents and businesses in the paradoxical position that their reward for exceptional water conservation is water that is twice as expensive,” writes SMa.r.t in their latest column. Photo: Getty.
SMa.r.t. Column: Warning Water Wars Ahead
Until it rains again, all the western states (including California) are being fried by a deadly drought. We have seen this before: seven years ago we had to reduce the entire State’s water consumption by […]
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