Blog: It’s Time to Rethink Cost of Water
From the American Rivers’ The River Blog:
“Water projects are expensive; in fact, very expensive. In the last few years, western water utilities, cities, state agencies, and private developers have proposed a bevy of expensive new water projects: the Lake Powell Pipeline in Utah (estimated at $1.2 billion), the Flaming Gorge Pipeline in Wyoming and Colorado (upwards of $7 billion), the Southern Delivery System in Colorado (now under construction, and expected to cost approximately $1.5 billion), and the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in California (nearly $1 billion), to name a few.
“These projects will impact customers’ water rates and connection fees.”