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How Can Imperial Beach Residents Participate in Solutions Against Flooding? This Group Wants to Help

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Tanya Murga

Every year, Imperial Beach residents board up their windows and shovel ocean sand off streets left underwater during high tide.

Researchers have been testing technology that warns the city in time to prepare for the arrival of powerful waves and, most recently, digging groundwater wells to track flooding.

The community can also play a significant role in reducing Imperial Beach’s flooding problems, researchers at San Diego State University said last week. How residents can get involved is what the researchers are hoping to find out.

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Do It Yourself or Hire a Landscape Professional?

/in , , /by /Water News Network

If you choose to design, implement and maintain a new WaterSmart landscape yourself, you can follow the Homeowner’s Guide to a WaterSmart Landscape to help you plan, prepare, and work through each step. Free classes and online videos can help.

 

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Water Authority Offers Water Saving Tips on CBS 8

/in , , /by /Water News Network Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

As the current drought stretches into a third year, the San Diego County Water Authority is providing water saving tips as part of a drought survival kit to San Diegans. San Diegans have learned how to conserve water, but there is always more we can do. Water Authority Water Resources Specialist Efren Lopez joined CBS 8 Anchor/Reporter Carlo Cecchetto on the news program “The Four” to discuss Gov. Newsom’s new water portfolio strategy and offer additional ways San Diegans can reduce water use.

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Governor Newsom Unveils Water Strategy, Planning for Greater Scarcity in CA

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Elizabeth Ireland Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a new water strategy on Thursday that plans for a future with 10% less water and shifts the emphasis from conservation to capturing more water that otherwise flows out to sea.

Climate change has contributed to more severe drought but has also set the stage for more intense flooding when rain does fall, as was demonstrated last week in California’s Death Valley, one of the hottest, driest parts of the United States.

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Water Negotiations Continue for Southern California Water Districts Amid Drought

/in , , /by /NBC Palm Springsby Carmela Karcher

The drought continues to grip the west with no signs of letting up.

One of the hardest hit places is the Colorado River, which serves about 40 million people, including right here in the Coachella Valley.

But action is being taken.

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Opinion: Conservation Alone Won’t Solve California’s Water Crisis. We Need More Infrastructure.

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribune Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

The question persists even though it shouldn’t: Can California conserve its way out of this drought?

The answer is clearly no. But then again, if water policy in California were as clear as water itself, Jake Gittes would never have been told to “forget it.”

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Request for Additional Water Denied to Las Virgenes Municipal Water District

/in , , /by /The Malibu Timesby Judy Abel

As we enter some of the hottest and driest months in a historic drought, local water officials have asked the state to allocate more water to the area surrounding Malibu to help mitigate wildfire risk. Unfortunately, that request has been denied.

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District that services the Santa Monica Mountains unincorporated Malibu area, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village and Hidden Hills, in partnership with the Metropolitan Water District, made the request to the State Water Project citing the area designated as “very high fire hazard severity zones.”

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How San Diegans Can Help Fight the Drought

/in , /by /CBS 8 Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority
As the statewide drought continues, the San Diego Water Authority joins The Four with some tips to help you save water immediately.
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Will Lake Mead’s Plummeting Water Levels Leave San Diego High and Dry?

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Joshua Emerson Smith Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

San Diegans get more than half their water from the Colorado River. So why haven’t local leaders rung alarm bells as Lake Mead has shrunk to record-low levels?

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Home Grown: Imperial Valley and Yuma Farmers Draft Plan for Water Cuts

/in , , /by /KYMAby Samantha Byrd

A plan is circulating among irrigation districts in Imperial Valley and Yuma to reduce Colorado River use by as much as 925,000 acre-feet.

This after federal officials demanded historic cuts in water use next year, on the order of 2 million to 4 million acre-feet.

One imperial valley grower says the Imperial Irrigation District holds more rights to Colorado River water than any other user in the basin.

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