EWEB currently lacks the financial capacity ($500m Carmen Smith, 2nd source water, etc etc) and is held hostage by their own IT management staff that has convinced their GM and Board to stay the course.  Homes and businesses will continue to pay the price.  Eweb's IT Mordacs prefer to spend $11m annually supporting archaic legacy IT systems than to pursue the much needed technology.  Courageous efforts by customer advocating employees championing new platforms to launch new customer friendly systems left them killed and eaten by internal sabotaging politicrats and technicrats that are running and ruining EWEB.  As far as the hypocrisy spewed by junk science activists, their cell phones produce a thousand times more RF emissions than a smart meter.  The Board received plenty of refuting credible science and chose to cave to Sputnick newsworthy blatherings.  A wholesale change in IT management and clear leadership are needed.  Otherwise, the next big storm might as well be called Ging.