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New Uniforms for IID Field Personnel

/in , /by /The Desert Review

Starting this week, approximately 500 Imperial Irrigation District employees who work primarily out in the field will begin wearing new uniforms, according to an IID press release. These workers include those required to enter customer properties such as meter readers and service representatives.

Uniforms will transition from the traditional blue shirts to tan colored apparel featuring a larger embroidered IID logo that will help employees be more easily identified by the public.

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Tuesday’s Storm Helps in the Short Term, But There’s No Doubt San Diego Needs More Rain

/in , /by /NBC7 San Diegoby Omari Fleming Quoted: San Diegoi County Water Authority

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming spoke to Goldy Herbon with the San Diego Water Authority about the impact Tuesday’s storm had on our drought conditions.

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NBC 7’s Omari Fleming (R) spoke to Goldy Herbon with the San Diego Water Authority about the impact the Tuesday, Dec. 14 storm had on our drought conditions. (Screenshot Courtesy NBC7 San Diego)

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Water Authority Earns Climate Registered Gold Status for Climate Initiative

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

The San Diego County Water Authority has earned Climate Registered gold status from The Climate Registry for verifying and publicly reporting its greenhouse gas emissions. The effort fosters transparency for the agency’s climate mitigation initiatives and will help the Water Authority track and validate emissions reductions in the future.

The Climate Registry operates North America’s largest voluntary registry for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Water Authority’s 2019 and 2020 inventories were verified and published in The Climate Registry’s public database in November, earning the agency gold status for both years.

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As Drought Worsens in Parts of Southern California, San Diego Helps With Supplies

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Chris Jennewein Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority has stepped up to provide additional water supplies to drought-ravaged areas in three Southern California counties.

Under an agreement with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, San Diego will provide water from an underground storage facility in Kern County to serve parts of northern Los Angeles County, Ventura County and San Bernardino County.

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Agencies Partner to Boost Water Supplies for Southern California

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

The San Diego County Water Authority and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have reached an agreement that will provide water to parts of Southern California facing extraordinary supply constraints due to cutbacks on the State Water Project.

Under a deal approved today by Metropolitan’s Board of Directors and previously authorized by the San Diego County Water Authority’s Board of Directors, Metropolitan will secure additional groundwater in 2022 from the Semitropic Water Bank in Kern County.

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Southern California Spared Major Fires as Storms End an Unprecedented Season

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Alex Wigglesworth

The storms pounding California this week are expected to bring an end to a wildfire season that shocked fire crews with its unprecedented, climate-change-driven behavior.

For the first time ever, wildfires burned from one side of the Sierra Nevada to the other, destroying multiple towns including the Gold Rush-era community of Greenville and the mountain hamlet of Grizzly Flats.

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EPA Announces $630 Million Plan to Stem Cross-Border Sewage Flows

/in , , /by /High Country Newsby Jessica Kutz

In March of 2018, the California cities of Imperial Beach, Chula Vista and the Port of San Diego sued the U.S. arm of the International Boundary and Water Commission over its failure to mitigate the flow of sewage-tainted water from the Tijuana River in Mexico. The lawsuit was in response to a February 2017 crisis, when more than 200 million gallons of sewage contaminated the California coast after a winter storm damaged sewer infrastructure in Mexico (“Two countries, one border and their shared pollution,” 12/06/18).

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Salton Sea Habitat Restoration Project Touted

/in , , /by /Holtville Tribuneby Julio Morales

An ongoing species conservation habitat project at the Salton Sea’s southwestern shore is serving as a reminder that the sea’s restoration remains a key priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom.

So, too, is a tour that dozens of state, federal and local stakeholders took of the project site where the New River enters the Salton Sea several miles west of Westmorland on Friday, Dec. 10.

Among those present was California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot, who said the tour was an acknowledgement of the ambitious Salton Sea Management Program’s progress and the overall work that remains to be done.

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Vista Irrigation District Board Hold Annual Organizational Meeting

/in , /by /The Vista Press

Vista Irrigation District board of directors elected Marty Miller as its president and Paul Dorey as its vice-president for 2022 at its annual organizational meeting.

Miller, who has served on the board of directors since 2008, represents division 1, which stretches from Gopher Canyon Road to Vale Terrace Drive in Vista.  This will be the third time Miller has led the board since being elected.

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Why Aren’t We Collecting Rainwater? Don’t Worry — Smart People Are Working On It

/in , , /by /NBC Los Angelesby Patrick Healy

Every time it rains, Angelenos might be thinking: are we saving any of that rain water?

Thursday’s storm brought some much needed rainfall, but with a burgeoning drought, many Southern California residents are wondering if we benefitted at all.

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