Once you use more than 6 CCF in one month, Palo Alto charges 50% more, or $10.96/CCF. Unfortunately, 5 CCF covers only indoor household use, if that, in many cases.

(That is the amount charged every month based on your meter size.) The main outlier is Truckee, which has a very high service charge. We are at least in the ballpark of most other cities. Palo Alto charges $7.42/CCF on top of a $21 meter charge. If you are going to use only 5 CCF of water in a month (1), our rates are not so bad. As a result, tree-friendly Palo Alto charges residents 30-50% more than neighboring cities to water our trees, even though we get our water from the same source. (Hide)Īre water rates in Palo Alto high? You bet. I love spending time outdoors, and feel deeply our responsibility to this incredible planet that we call home. After working in the tech industry for about 25 years, I retired a few years ago to better align my time with my priorities. I studied math and neurobiology on the east coast before moving out here in 1987 for grad school in computer science. My background is not in climate science, and I'm not even particularly green my hope is that helps to make this blog more relatable. It is important that we develop a shared understanding of the basic science and impacts of climate change, to make sense of our actions and policy options going forward. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of how our climate is evolving and how they want to respond, and will feel comfortable asking questions and exchanging comments on the topic. About this blog: Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us.

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