The EPA itself has put together a book giving its pros and cons in order to promote its consideration by states. A series of tables show the moderating influence that single tariff pricing will have on all districts dramatic price increases are avoided, but some costs are shifted from smaller districts to larger districts. Because H-5 is about change, people attack it. Some attack it for what it does. Others attack it for what it does not.
Some attacks are fair.
Most are not. The fair attacks are easy to summarize. This is a fair criticism. In response, all I can say is that I see these rising costs of water treatment and water distribution to be a federally driven health policy. States, cities, and regulatory Commissions need to accommodate this policy, and regional rates are one form of accommodation.