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The San Diego County Water Authority on Thursday announced a 21-year agreement to sell surplus water to the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County, potentially offsetting costs for local customers.

Western Municipal, which serves nearly 1 million residents in western Riverside County, will pay $13.5 million annually for 10,000 acre-feet of water — enough for 30,000 homes. It will also pay $40 million up front for the equivalent of three-years supply that can be tapped in case of an drought emergency.

The San Diego County Water Authority has inked its first deal to sell excess water to other communities in Southern California, a landmark overhaul of the water authority’s business model that’s long been promised by top officials.

The water authority’s new agreement to sell water to the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County will bring in $100 million in new revenue for the San Diego region’s financially strapped water system over the next five years.

First, a candidate with ties to a ten billion dollar data center project is also running for a board seat on Imperial County’s water and power agency. Then, we’ll tell you how and why trust in elections has decreased. Also, a look at e-bike injuries as the full San Diego City Council will soon make a decision on proposed e-bike regulations.

And, Nascar is coming to Naval Air Station North Island. Plus, the Coronado Unified School District might be tightening its cell phone policies.

Burnet Wohlford’s family built Escondido’s water supply. More than a century ago, his great-grandfather, Alvin, directed water to the area from the San Luis Rey River along a rock and brush canal. It’s a legacy built into the landscape, the dammed reservoir northeast of town bearing the family’s name.

But all these years later, the water system Wohlford’s family helped build is the very thing making life harder for him.

California’s water supply challenges increasingly pose risks not only to the state’s economy, but to national food production, interstate commerce, international trade, and national economic stability and security. While seawater desalination is a proven technology used worldwide to expand reliable water supplies, large-scale projects along California’s coast have faced significant regulatory barriers at the state level.

In the report, Creating Opportunities to Bring Seawater Desalination to Coastal Federal Lands in California, authors Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at California Policy Center, and Tim Paone, Partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, outline practical actions the federal government can take using existing authority or targeted legislative action to enable the development of seawater desalination facilities on federal coastal lands in California.