Water agencies all over California are experiencing water affordability and cost increase challenges. We spoke with Dan Denham, general manager of San Diego County Water Authority, to learn how his agency is working to keep prices affordable for its customers. … [Dan Denham:] Water markets are absolutely part of the solution. They should have been 20 years in the making. … [T]here are barriers, including compacts and court decrees between different parties, that make it difficult to set up a water arrangement. But we can get around that with cooperative agreements.

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