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by amluto 2515 days ago
None of this is at all relevant to my point. SFPUC charges over $4/ccf for wholesale water. This does not include distribution costs, and this is paid regardless of whether the water is sold, leaks, or is used for firefighting. If SFPUC’s wholesale customers purchased desalinated water and managed to escape their SFPUC contracts, they would eliminate this expense.

edit: http://bawsca.org/water/rates/wholesale
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Retric 2515 days ago
That’s not exclusive price just per gallon of water.

https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=774...

Wholesale untreated water is 1.02$ per 1,000 gallons. Page 16: ( 0.76 per 748 Gallons delivered). Plus a fixed fee for the size of the pipe (22.67$ for a one inch pipe.)

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amluto 2515 days ago
Curious. I’m pretty sure my water provider pays the BAWSCA rate. I don’t know why it’s so different.

edit: You’re looking at rate W-24. BAWSCA users seem to pay rate W-25, which is far higher. I don’t know exactly what the difference is.

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