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Standing Room Only Crowd Sounds Off About Detachment Proposal

/in , /by /Village Newsby Julie Reeder Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Local residents spoke out at a packed standing room only town hall meeting last week about a proposal by the Fallbrook Public Utility District and Rainbow Municipal Water District to switch water suppliers, a change that they are reportng would save ratepayers millions of dollars.

Following years of escalating water costs from the San Diego County Water Authority, averaging 8% per year, FPUD and Rainbow are seeking to change water suppliers – through a process known as detachment – from the Water Authority.

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California Urban Water Use Rose 19% in March Despite Worsening Drought

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Jamie Ding

Despite official calls to increase conservation amid worsening drought, urban water use across California increased by nearly 19% in March, according to the State Water Resources Control Board.

The startling conservation figure was among a number of grim assessments water officials offered reporters Tuesday in a California drought outlook. Others included critically low reservoir levels and major shifts in the water cycle due to climate change.

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DWP Customers in L.A. Face Two-Day-a-Week Water Restrictions, With Eight-Minute Limit

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Hayley Smith

Nearly 4 million Angelenos will be reduced to two-day-a-week watering restrictions on June 1 under drought rules released by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Tuesday.

The highly anticipated announcement came two weeks after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California called for the strictest-ever water cuts in the region due to worsening drought conditions and reduced supplies from the California State Water Project. The MWD action left many to wonder just how the rules would be applied in L.A.

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May Gray and June Gloom are Threatened by Climate Change. Enjoy Them While They Last

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Paul Duginski

Anyone who has shivered through an overcast Memorial Day at the beach knows that Southern California has a tendency to serve up gray days at this time of the year. Locals call it May gray and June gloom. But the heavy-looking gray clouds that blot out the sun aren’t just the bane of beachgoers. They serve an important environmental role.

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Proposal for Huntington Beach Desalination Plant to Receive Final Vote Thursday

/in , , /by /ABC 10 by Mimi Elkalla

Poseidon Water, the company that runs the seawater desalination facility in Carlsbad, is pushing to build another desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

“We developed the project in Carlsbad and have been operating that facility since we came online in 2015. In that time, we have produced almost 90 billion gallons of fresh water for San Diego County residents,” said Jessica Jones, director of communications for Poseidon Water.

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San Diego Water Supply Stable Amid Worsening Drought

/in , , /by /KPBS-FMby Maureen Cavanaugh and Harrison Patiño Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The first ever outdoor water restrictions have recently been announced for sections of Los Angeles and other Southern California counties.

Due to an increasingly severe drought that’s drastically reduced the sierra snowpack, watering will be cut back to one day a week in those areas.

San Diego, however, is being spared such measures.

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What Israel, Las Vegas and Other Places Can Teach SoCal About Using a Lot Less Water

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Hayley Smith and Ian James

Millions of Southern Californians will wake up to the region’s most severe water restrictions ever on June 1, with local water agencies under orders to slash the use of supplies from the State Water Project by 35%.

Many water experts say that the cuts are achievable and that reducing outdoor watering to one day a week can help yield immediate savings. At the same time, researchers and water policy experts say, the region needs to adapt to the severe drought because climate change, extreme heat and dwindling snowpack will only serve to exacerbate the issues in years to come

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Water District Threatens to Severely Limit Water to Overusing Residents in Western L.A. County

/in , , /by /KTLAby Sandra Mitchell

Just last year the Fleiner family moved to Calabasas. The family built a pool and finished landscaping their backyard just last month.

The outdoor upgrades cost them about $150,000, Deena Fleiner told KTLA. Now the local water supplier is telling them they’re using too much water.

Their story is not unlike like many other families at risk of severe restrictions.

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Ventura Agrees to 20-Year Deal to Lease Its State Water Supply. Here’s Why

/in , , /by /Ventura County Starby Cheri Carlson

Ventura has struck a 20-year deal with a Riverside County water wholesaler that would save the city millions of dollars in costs to maintain its rights to imported state water.

Under the agreement approved last month, the city would lease its share of imported water to the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency in Beaumont, an arrangement that would reap $1.1 million this year and cover nearly half of the $2.27 million it will owe to keep its state water entitlement. San Gorgonio would increase its share of the costs starting next year.

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State Lawmakers Target Trash in Tijuana River Valley

/in , /by /Voice of San Diegoby MacKenzie Elmer

A handful of state lawmakers gathered last week on the side of the Tijuana River Estuary that’s not visibly clogged by plastics and tires spilling from Mexico down canyon gullies or down the river itself to ask the governor for money to, well, stop trash from spilling over the border.

Southern California lawmakers hope Gov. Gavin Newsom will put $100 million in next year’s budget to be split equally between the Tijuana River and the Mexicali-to-Salton-Sea-flowing New River, both sewage-plagued water bodies.

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