[JKCalhoun]

> Significantly increasing the price of a natural resource would have severe impacts on impoverished communities while having no effect at all on wealthy people and companies; is this intentional?

Not with tiered pricing. The poor don't use any more water than the middle-class.

[mistrial9]

Please understand that in the suburbs of Contra Costa County, where swimming pools are very common and a few still raise livestock, there was a county initiative (pre-2007) to dramatically rise the price of water use for those properties using more than 1000 gallons of water per day, and there was a mass scene at the Board of Supervisors meeting with irate home owners. The initiative did not pass.

[JKCalhoun]

Why would home owners be irate? Do they use over 1000 gallons a day? Because it smells to me like "astroturfing".