Don't like it leave. The ever expanding UC campus is taxing the whole area. And then the students act like they are all politicaly motivated while supporting the largest WMD program in the world. The richest student body in the state.

Santa Cruz is dependent on rain for their water supply. It should be expensive to encourage less frivolous use, and hopefully less developement.

The ever expanding UC system has pushed out far more "poor" people than raising the water rates.

Collecting, impounding, purifying, and distibuting water is not a free process. I'm state certified as a grade II water treatment operator, so I know.

Maybe they need the money to pay for the law suit from the UC system about water issues. You want to fight a scourge to Santa Cruz fight the ever expanding west side cancer.