LETTER: Lower consumption means less revenue for water officials

Nicholas Gartner Henderson
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In the early 1990s, I was working in Los Angeles and living in Las Vegas. The authorities were fining people for taking too many showers because there was a water shortage in California. It worked. The crisis was averted. One problem: There was not enough revenue coming in with the lower water usage to cover municipal bonds. No worries. They just doubled the price of water. Sound familiar?

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