虽然犹他州的水资源监管与加利福尼亚州和其他更大、更城市化的州有所不同，但也存在一些潜在的共同问题。监管机构应公平对待所有公司。监管者应该制定法律和规则，使监管者能够响应他们监管的人的需求和担忧。水务公司不应该像加利福尼亚州那样，任由监管人员做出看似武断的决定。此外，这个过程不应该如此复杂和昂贵，以至于给较小的供水设施带来不必要的负担，从而使它们无法生存。 这些担忧并非犹他州和加利福尼亚州的水务公司所独有。本文介绍了犹他州公用事业部对加利福尼亚州案例以及某些NRRI和其他出版物中的信息进行的审查，发现犹他州和加利福尼亚州监管水务公司的方法之间的差异大于相似之处。

While water regulation in Utah is somewhat different from California and other larger more urbanized states, there are some underlying common concerns. All companies should be treated equitably by regulatory agencies. Regulators should have laws and rules in place that make the regulators responsive to the needs and concerns of those they regulate. Water companies should not be at the mercy of seemingly arbitrary decisions of regulatory personnel as alleged to have existed in California. Also, the process should not be so complicated and costly that it places an undue burden on the smaller water utilities thus pushing them toward inviability. These concerns are not unique to water companies in Utah and California. This paper presents a review by The Utah Division of Public Utilities of the information in the California case and in certain NRRI and other publications and found that there were more dissimilarities than similarities particularly between the Utah and the California approach to regulating water companies.