[jfmiller28]

Water in SoCal _is_ very expensive. The problem is that by the time you make it expensive enough for the country club set to need to conserve, the rest of us can't afford to flush the toilet. There are solutions, but billionaires with green lawns while low-income workers are loosing service just doesn't work.

[burkaman]

Couldn't they simply charge a normal rate for the first 50 or so gallons, and then a "drought rate" for anything beyond that?

[DanBC]

You have dual charges. Domestic use is given one rate. Commercial ise is given another rate.

[sehr]

Palm Springs area water does not come from the same place as SD/LA etc..

IIRC, most of the drinking water comes from the local groundwater, and nearly all of the ag water comes from the Colorado like in the Imperial Valley