The San Diego City Council is set to vote next week on a series of water rate increases that could raise the average household bill by about $18 per month. Rates would then continue climbing by roughly the same amount each year for the next three years.

That's a 63% increase over four years.

But City Council President Joe LaCava said support for the plan might be slipping.

“The number of us on the council that are willing to say, 'this looks bad, I'm gonna regret this vote, but I voted for it at the budget time, and I've gotta stick with it,' and that number is getting smaller and smaller,“ he said. “And so as the council president, I'm beginning a little concerned about how do we actually deliver all that new revenue that we built into the budget.”

That would be notable because the ci

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