Water shortages are coming after an especially dry winter and a year plagued by heat waves and drought.
Local officials are scrambling for options. If their water supply comes up short, Coalinga politicians are going to have to buy water from the open market. It’s amazingly expensive and could impact Coalinga’s ability to provide other services for residents, according to. Water on that market currently costs up to $2,500 an acre-foot, or 326,000 gallons, which would cost the city millions of dollars to obtain the necessary water.
This isn’t the first year that Coalinga is feeling the pinch of water restrictions. The city has been under some sort of water restriction since 2014, according to Adkisson. And theBack in 2017,
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