You still shouldn’t water the lawn too much, but the San Diego region will have enough water supply to meet demand for the next three years even if they’re dry, the County Water Authority reported Thursday.

The agency’s board of directors, after hearing the projections from staff, voted unanimously to take a regional approach to the state’s new process for certifying supply sufficiency for the water authority’s 24 member agencies, and to establish a long-term drought awareness initiative.

Del Mar became the second city in the county to declare its goal of switching exclusively to renewable energy by 2035, according to a climate action approved Monday by the city council.

The document, which follows a similar plan approved by San Diego in December, spells out measures to reduce the city’s carbon emissions. It directs Del Mar to explore ways of purchasing renewable energy directly and aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020 and by 50 percent by 2035.

Ramona Municipal Water District directors will hold two public hearings at their June 14 meeting — one on sewer rate increases and the other on the draft 2015 Urban Water Management Plan update that is state-mandated.

The hearings will be held in conjunction with the board meeting, which will begin at 2 p.m. in Ramona Community Center, 434 Aqua Lane.

 

Three city of San Diego programs were nominated Wednesday for Golden Watchdog Awards, which are handed out annually by the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. Nominees for the Media Watchdog Award are Ashly McGlone of the Voice of San Diego for “Several Years and $1 Billion Later, San Diego Schools Are Actually in Worse Shape,” a story on the impact of a pair of voter-approved construction bonds on facilities in the San Diego Unified School District; and Lauryn Schroeder of The San Diego Union-Tribune for “How One Firefighter Made $210K in OT,” which details city of San Diego overtime expenses.