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San Diego Fighting Alone For $400,000 To Cover Water Testing For Lead At Schools

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby David Garrick

San Diego is the only city in California seeking state reimbursement for testing the toxic lead levels in water at local schools, which has cost the city’s water agency more than $400,000. The city has done tests at 256 schools since early 2017, but must test another 45 schools over the next six weeks. State legislation requires water agencies to test every public school, regardless of whether the agency gets a request, by July 1. Significantly more schools in San Diego County have been tested than in any other county in California since the state requirement began.

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Shrinking Glaciers, Bigger Fires And Hotter Nights: How Climate Change Is Altering California

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Tony Barboza and Joe Fox

California may be a leader in the fight against climate change, but the state is increasingly hard hit by symptoms of the unrelenting rise of greenhouse gases, a new state assessment finds. As global warming accelerates, California is getting hotter and drier. Trees and animals are moving to higher ground. Air conditioning is an increasing necessity. More winter precipitation is falling as rain and there’s less spring snowmelt to satisfy the water demands of farms and cities.

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November Water Bond Promises $8.7 Billion Towards Securing California’s Future

/in , /by /The Planning Report (Los Angeles) Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

California voters are being presented with two upcoming water bond propositions in the June and November elections. In June, Prop 68 will present voters with a $4 billion Parks and Water Bond, and in November the Water Supply and Water Quality bond will present voters with an $8.7 billion bond. Recently, TPR sat down with Jerry Meral, official proponent of the November Water Bond and director of the California Water Program at the Natural Heritage Institute.

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What If People Were Paid To Use Less Water?

/in , /by /City Lab (Washington, DC)by Zachary Burt

From Sao Paulo and Cape Town to Beijing and San Diego, water demand in cities around the world is outstripping supply. Urbanization, developing economies, and shifting precipitation patterns are some of the causes, all with the same result: diminishing water availability in cities all over the world. We need a global rethink, one that starts with turning markets upside down.

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Gov. Jerry Brown Warns That Delta Tunnels Project Could Be Jeopardized If Momentum Is Not Maintained

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Patrick McGreevy

Gov. Jerry Brown warned local water agency officials throughout California on Thursday that unless the delta tunnels project gets needed state and federal permits soon and continues advancing, the major infrastructure project may not happen in their lifetime. Brown issued the warning Thursday in a speech to more than 1,000 water experts and officials whom he urged to support the project at a conference of the Assn. of California Water Agencies.

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IID Energy Manager: I Was Ordered To Fire Engineers Who Were Replaced By Private Consultant

/in , /by /The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Sammy Roth

Imperial Irrigation District general manager Kevin Kelley threatened to fire the public agency’s energy manager if he didn’t participate in the abrupt dismissal of five longtime IID employees who were ultimately replaced by the private consulting firm ZGlobal Inc., according to sworn testimony made public for the first time this week.

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Gov. Brown Pitches Nearly $100 Million In Spending To Prevent Wildfires

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Liam Dillon

Gov. Jerry Brown plans to add $96 million to next year’s spending plan to address threats of wildfires and climate change. Brown made the announcement in an executive order issued Thursday. Among other changes, the state will double the land currently managed for vegetation thinning, controlled burns and reforestation from 250,000 acres to 500,000 acres, boost education programs for landowners on forest fires and expand grants to improve watersheds.

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Fallbrook Home Loads Up On Colors Of The Desert

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Nan Sterman

Ring the entry bell to Patrick Anderson and Les Olsen’s Fallbrook, California, garden, and the tall, redheaded Anderson is likely to greet you wearing teal-colored trousers and a melon orange shirt. His colorful persona, both inside and out, is only a hint of what’s to come. Anderson’s tour starts at the streetside garden he designed a few years ago. The gated driveway is flanked with angular planter beds stuccoed dusky sage green. The structure and geometry play off mass plantings with a limited plant palette. Still, each bed is filled with a dramatic combination of succulents and cacti.

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OPINION: Proposition 68 Will Leave California With More Unnecessary Debt. Vote No.

/in , /by /The Orange County Register

The California Legislature is about as spendthrift a legislature as one can find anywhere in the country. State revenues and expenditures continue to hit record levels, with Governor Brown’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year calling for over $131 billion in General Fund spending, compared to $91 billion in General Fund spending for 2012-13. Yet for all this growth in revenues and even a projected surplus, the Legislature never gets around to prioritizing the basics. The addiction to doling out money left and right never seems to apply to things like the water, flood protection or parks.

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‘Raw Water’: Californians Paying Big Bucks For Oregon Tap Water

/in , /by /KOIN 6 (Portland, Ore.)by Gabrielle Karol

Unpurified, untreated water is available for sale – for $16 a jug. The so-called “raw water” trend, as initially reported in The New York Times, made it even easier to call Californians crazy. The newspaper reported that the untreated spring water, bottled in glass, was so popular at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery that it was often out of stock. The company behind the product – Live Spring Water – says on its website that its “spring water is collected from Opal Spring in Central Oregon.” The website promises that the unfiltered water “goes directly into triple washed and rinsed 2.5 gallon lead free glass jugs.”

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