Quality of service is perceived to be good both by companies and residential users.
Maybe they were concentrating on big or residential users.
In contrast, natural gas prices do not vary seasonally for residential users.
To pay for the filter plant, the city would likely have to double water rates for most residential users.
And for residential users, restrictions on outdoor use would be declared.
The increase, the first since 1991, would amount to an average of $28 a year for each residential user, officials said.
C1 California regulators decided how to distribute a rate increase, raising rates for the biggest residential users by an average of $85 a month.
Indeed, the general trend seems to be that there is a penalty for residential users.
However, cross-subsidies between residential users do not always reach their objective.
About 80 percent of public water use is accounted for by residential and small commercial users.
