Why does consumer conservation cause higher prices every single time? The City of Long Beach California has just announced the raising of water prices by 20% beginning this fall. Reason given the conservation efforts in saving water by the citizens of the city have so drastically reduced their income from the sale of water they now need to raise prices to restore the cities income to previous levels. The same thing happened a couple of years ago with natural gas. So if we get charged more for conserving why should people conserve. Also our mayor was one of the three energy company leaders that helped set up deregulation in California and allowed the Enron scam to happen.

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I am going to ad a couple of relevant points that seem to be ignored by politicians and utility people all over and especially here in California. Currently the only water from rain that gets saved and used for drinking or irrigation is snow pack and what soaks into the aquifer to be pumped out or rise as springs. The rain that falls in the city that does not soak into somebody’s yard goes down the drain to the ocean. Probably close to 80% of our meek rainfall goes straight to the sea without performing any useful duty except for washing down streets and gutters.

Also as far as I have been able to learn most of the output from local sewage treatment plants goes straight to the sea instead of being pumped to the soak areas of the aquifers to ease our dependence on imported water.
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