[amluto]

> Further, 0.01 cents per 6.4 gallons is 500$ per acre foot which is horrifically excessive for agriculture where most water is used.

Which suggests that something is egregiously wrong with residential water pricing.

[brnt]

The price is not really for the water, which is too cheap to Meyer, but for the infrastructure, which is per liter transmitted a much higher fraction of the cost than industrial/agricultural users.

[amluto]

And yet most California utilities charge a connection fee and a per-unit-volume fee.