Reshaping the DWP

Keeping DWP bills comparatively low over the long run means Los Angeles residents will have to pay higher water and electric rates for at least the next two years. Daily News.

That's the message Interim DWP chief Austin Beutner sent to a skeptical public ahead of his presentation today to the City Council on the future of the city-owned utility.

"Our rates are below comparable utilities and we want to keep them there," Beutner said in an interview Monday with the Daily News. "But to do that will require a certain investment now."