For over a decade, the City poured money into infrastructure meant to do one thing: kill its dependence on imported water, the expensive, unreliable, and undependable supply that still covers 30% of what the city drinks. That plan is now broken. City documents show new state housing mandates will swell the population well past what local supplies can handle, a fact buried inside the very Water Plan the Council approved last month without a single word of discussion. 

In addition, nobody asked whether the Metropolitan Water District could actually cover the shortfall in a five-year drought.

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