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The cost of water from the plant will be $100 to $200 more per acre-foot than recycled water (approximately 0.045 cents per gallon), $1,000 to $1,100 more than reservoir water (approx. 0.32 cents per gallon), but $100 to $200 less than importing water from outside the county. [42] As of April 2015, San Diego County imported 90% of its water. [13]
A 2011 study of a sampling of 735 California homes across ten water districts found that the weighted average annual total water use of these homes was 132,000 US gallons (500 m 3) per year or 362 US gallons (1.37 m 3) per household per day. [44]
The Metropolitan Water District, which delivers imported water to Southern California, is raising rates and property taxes to cover rising costs.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (the largest entitlement holder) pays $298 per acre-foot ($241 per 1,000 m 3). This basically means that cities are subsidizing the cost of farm water, even though the cities also provided primary funding for the construction of the SWP.
California water officials have estimated that the total costs of drinking water solutions for communities statewide amount to $11.5 billion over the next five years.
The cost is now apparent. Michael Hiltzik. September 21, 2022 at 9:00 AM. ... (By then the state had all but gone to war with California over water rights on the river, dispatching a squad of ...
Within this choice set, the preferred water tariff depends on multiple factors including: the goals of water pricing; the capacity of a water services supplier to allocate its costs, to price water, and to collect revenues from its customers; the price responsiveness of water consumers; and what is considered to be a fair or just water tariff. [4]
The facility would produce 190,000 cubic metres of drinking water per day, enough to supply about 100,000 homes. [171] As of June 2012, the cost for the desalinated water had risen to $2,329 per acre-foot. [172] Each $1,000 per acre-foot works out to $3.06 for 1,000 gallons, or $0.81 per cubic meter. [173]