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Authority Hosts Women in Water

/in , /by /The Star Newsby Albert Fulcher

Sweetwater Authority held its San Diego Women in Water meeting at is Robert A. Perdue Water Treatment Plant on Aug. 14. Co-sponsored by the Authority, Otay Water District, Santa Fe Irrigation District, and Olivenhain Municipal Water District, the event brought more than 150 water professionals and elected officials together to share ideas and connect with industry professionals.

Guest speaker Dr. Maria-Elana Giner, P.E., shared her career journey that led her to be appointed by President Joe Biden as Commissioner of the United States International Boundary Commission in 2021. Giner is the second woman, and first Latina, to hold this position. Attendees were also provided with an in-depth tour of the Authority’s treatment facility, given and insider-look at the agency’s operations.

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BLOG: How Did Water Authority’s Unicorn Become an Endangered Species?

/in , /by /SoCal Water Warsby John Earl

Shortly after the California Coastal Commission’s stunning rejection of Poseidon Water’s $1.4 billion ocean desalination plant proposal for Huntington Beach, Poseidon’s long—time VP of development, Scott Maloni, quipped on Facebook about the “unjust decision,” which put an end to big ocean desal in California for the foreseeable future.

“The silver lining,” he wrote, “San Diego has a water unicorn. The Carlsbad Desalination Plant is a one-of-a-kind treasure that will never be replicated again in the state of California.”

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Repairing a Critical Calgary Feeder Main Line After a Catastrophic Failure

/in , /by /ES&E Magazineby David Nesseth Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

While the process of paving over underground repairs and refilling the feeder main line brought a collective sigh of relief in Calgary, critical water quality tests loomed as workers focused on the finish line in the dwindling days of June.

The more than three-week ordeal of repairing the nearly 50-year-old, 11 kilometre-long, two-metre diameter feeder main was a significant challenge for Calgary’s Water Services Director, Nancy Mackay, her team, and other municipal departments, not to mention the city’s 1.6 million residents.

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Could Tijuana Recycle its Wastewater to Solve Water Shortages?

/in , /by /Coronado Timesby Megan Kitt

Mexico is facing a growing water shortage, leading to unpredictable, often lengthy water shut-offs in Tijuana.

Meanwhile, millions of gallons of wastewater are dumped from Tijuana into the Pacific Ocean each day. In the future, that water could be recycled, putting a significant dent in the country’s water supply issue.

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Water Flow Continues off Black Mountain in Rancho Peñasquitos

/in , /by /CBS8by David Gotfredson

 Amy Harris’ backyard has a stunning view of Black Mountain in Rancho Peñasquitos. She and her husband mountain bike on the trails.

“I’ve been mountain biking since I was a teenager. I’ve been living here 26 years,” said Harris. This year, they’ve noticed water where it normally would not be flowing.

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San Diego Forgoes More Colorado River Water in New Deal

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

The Colorado River’s biggest single user – farmers in Imperial Valley – made another agreement with the federal government to cut their take of the overused, threatened river for the next two years, with help from San Diego.

The Imperial Irrigation District’s board announced this week it’d pay farmers to skip some harvests in the coming two years in order to keep around 700,000 acre feet of water (an acre-foot is two California households’ annual water use) in the river’s biggest reservoir, Lake Mead.

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Carlsbad Aquafarm Leaving Agua Hedionda Lagoon

/in , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Phil Diehl

Carlsbad Aquafarm is leaving Agua Hedionda Lagoon for other environmental enterprises after the property owner, NRG Energy, discontinued the lease on the site.

“We have other things,” owner Tom Grimm said Tuesday. “We are pivoting our business model to living shoreline projects … such as using oyster shells to create reefs and nesting areas.”

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Mystery Water Flow Flooding Backyards in Rancho Peñasquitos

/in , /by /CBS8by David Gotfredson

A waterfall has been flowing in the backyard of Ron White’s home on Wescott Court in Rancho Peñasquitos just below Black Mountain for the past year.

“The big rains happened, and by this time last year in August, we thought it would go away, and it did not,” said White.

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Local Water Rates to Increase 14.9%

/in , /by /Valley Road Runner by David Ross Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Valley Center Municipal Water District rates will see an overall rate increase of 16.1 % effective January 1, 2025 from its wholesale supplier, the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA), which supplies 100% of VCMWD’s water. When combined with a lower 5% increase for locally controlled operations costs, the net impact for most customers will be 14.9%.

Last year the overall rate of increase was 9%. “This one is a little bit larger than we have seen in the past,” VCMWD Gen. Mgr Gary Arant told The Roadrunner. “Though in the mid-90s rates went up over 30% in some years. It is certainly not unprecedented in the history of rate increases.”

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Stemster Mains Man Hailed a Hero for Helping Fix Water Crisis in Canadian City

/in , /by /John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courierby David G Scott Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

A Caithness man now living in the United States was hailed as a hero by the people of Calgary for helping fix a major water crisis in the city.

Martin Coghill originally hails from Stemster Mains and now lives with his family in California where he is the operations and maintenance manager for asset management at the San Diego County Water Authority.

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