The price of recycled water for Eastern Municipal Water District agricultural customers has been reduced.Eastern provides the district’s general manager with the authority to implement a specialized winter incentive rate for recycled water so that the district won’t need to discharge water if supply exceeds storage capacity. General manager Joe Mouawad authorized the reduction and notified the EMWD board during his general manager’s report at the Wednesday, Jan. 19, board meeting.Significant December rainfall reduced demand, and Mouawad said that storage was at 74% of capacity. During fiscal year 2020-2021 agricultural customers used approximately 62% of the district’s recycled water supply. Mouawad approved the 50% discount from the normal agriculture winter rate, reducing
