This week, San Diego City Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera said it may be time for the city to begin discussing leaving or dissolving the Water Authority. … The city of San Diego has been the steward of the Water Authority. City appointees have essentially controlled it for decades. They drove it to take on the massive debts, deals and projects that are forcing such high rate increases now. The suggestion that the city would now consider leaving it seemed ludicrous. One of the mayor’s top aides is the chair of the Water Authority and the city sponsored successful legislation to make it much harder for agencies to leave the Water Authority. But now the city leaving the Water Authority is apparently a thing.