Watch the water. This is a big story.
(calmatters.org)
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I think the scam at play is making water excessively expensive for smaller/local water service providers, particularly those away from big cities. Force migration to larger, more populated areas due to rising costs, form “Big Water” as a budding industry in one of the most corrupt states in the Union, and make it as hard as possible to avoid submitting to 15-minute cities as the “new normal” for civilization.
“We’re the government, and we’re here for your safety.”
You very well might be right. Tough to imagine at a bear minimum that there's some kind of massive kickbacks going on here with this program. It is California after all.
One of those situations where I suspect both assertions will be true. This is a scam and hexavalent chromium is bad shit.
Sadly, I think this is the most realistic take here.