The DWP currently has two water rate tiers; the proposal would double that.
Suggestions in the L.A. Times op-ed include more water meters, tiered pricing and better storage. .
The customers who find themselves chronically in the highest water-use tier will also be subject to a water-use analysis by the DWP, in which utility staff members will need to be given access to a customer's property.
For some there is an aesthetic purity in a waterfall having a long, single drop but for others the sight of water descending in tiers is more beautiful.
While Coke may be able to differentiate Dasani because it adds minerals to improve the taste, Dixon questions its recently adopted three-tier water strategy, which puts Evian as the premier brand, Dasani at the mid-level, and Dannon at the bottom.
Residential customers are paying about half a cent per gallon for first-tier water in the city of Los Angeles.
At the Metropolitan Water District, the wholesaler that provides about 60% of Southern California's water, the top-tier rate for a gallon is about one-third of a penny.
Across the pit, fire trucks head up and down the tiers, spraying water as best they can.
It expanded the range of required cuts from four categories to nine, and assigned water districts to those tiers based on three months of water use last summer, rather than just September 2014.
By John Deere A contemporary take on the traditional three-tiered water feature, this fountain gives the impression that each of the three tiers is suspended above the other by rods of water alone.
