8.1 Cost of Compliance The IRWD budget-based pricing structure encourages use within a water budget through a significantly tiered commodity pricing system and discourages wasteful use. The response measures for the levels of water supply shortage include a set of measures, referred to as DMM, that can be implemented through and along with the budget-based pricing structure. Any additional expenditures directly resulting from water shortage action responses and compliance with these responses such as customer outreach, review of water use, and enforcement are covered by IRWD’s existing revenue structure. Enforcing compliance with shortage response actions and the cost of these DMM does not pose significant change or hardship in the overall IRWD budget. Many of these responses and actions are carried out, as detailed above in Section 4 and in the public IRWD Rules and Regulations, on a regular voluntary basis and have been previously budgeted for accordingly.
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IRWD – 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan
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