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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (882467)8/25/2015 3:15:35 PM
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WR,
If you don't lose the water which is here (and needed) now, you won't have to do the impossible and make up for it with desal water in the future. Takes time to build plants, and the drought is here now.
I get the short-term need, but the balls are meant to last 10 years. It's clearly meant to be a long-term solution.
They say 300,000,000 gallons a year.
That's equivalent to just over 400K of HCF units (HCF = Hundred Cubic Feet = 748 gallons).

Each HCF is worth somewhere between $5-7, depending on the rate tier and customer. Let's round that up to $10 given the drought and the expected hikes in water rates in the near future.

That amounts to a savings of $4M per year, or $40M over 10 years.

Not bad, since it then pays for itself, but nowhere near the $250M in "savings" that the politicians are claiming.

Tenchusatsu
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