A partnership company is being put together which will be owned by the 4 richest people in the US. Big 4 Water will finance the construction of the water projects. Once the projects are operational, the local and state government will pay to operate the projects. The members of Big 4 Water will sell the water to the various states. A six year payoff is expected and they will have a 30 year lease on the project. By using external funding, many years of red tape will be bypassed and the participating states and be saved from possible disaster.
Big 4 Water will be paid for the amount of water produced, not used. Evaporation and spillage will be the cost of doing business.
The water will be sold for the lowest price possible, but it will eventually be of cost the end user. If all of the states involved do run out of water it is estimated that property values will drop dramatically as trucking fresh water in will be very expensive. Unfortunately everyone chose to live in the desert and now the water is running out.
We are currently paying $0.12 cents per gallon in Almeda County, California and people in Mendocino, California are paying $0.29 cents per gallon. With some reports of customers being charged $0.45 cents per gallon. Some hotels are charging $10 per shower.
“Mendocino’s water shortage is an extreme example of what some far-flung towns in California are experiencing as the state slips deeper into its second year of drought. Scores of century-old, hand-dug wells in the town have run dry, forcing residents, inns and restaurants to fill storage tanks with water trucked from faraway towns at the cost of anywhere from 20 to 45 cents a gallon. Utilities in California, by contrast, typically charge their customers less than a penny per gallon of tap water.”
“As a measure of both the nation’s creaking infrastructure and the severity of the drought gripping California, there is the $5 shower. That’s how much the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in this tourist town three hours north of San Francisco, spends on water every time a guest washes for five minutes under the shower nozzle.”
Water will initially be sold for $0.005 cents per gallon. This will be 2 gallons of water for 1 cent. The aim will be that farmers will get a standard rate of $100 per acre foot. They will need to be a registered farm with all of the relevant licensing to get the lower water price.
When all of the plants are running, the revenue earned by Big 4 Water will be $37 million per day. That equates to roughly $15.5 billion per year.
After public comments about only the rich getting richer; the public will have options to buy into Big 4 Water as silent partners. The minimum buy in value will be $10,000. If 1 million people buy into the scheme at the minimum amount, that would give the projects $10 billion. Financial negotiations are ongoing.
Once the projects are proven to be successful, additional plants can be built to supply Arizona and New Mexico.
With the Great Salt Lake Recharge Pipeline, Big 4 Water will be paid for every gallon of water transported.
If the price of gasoline went up in these areas, everyone would grumble and simply pay the price.
