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California Wants Its Imperial Valley to Be ‘Lithium Valley’

/in , , /by /Bloomberg Businessweekby David R. Baker

Dust storms laced with toxins sweep across California’s Imperial County, where mud volcanoes spit and hiss near the shores of the slowly shrinking lake known as the Salton Sea. The county is one of California’s poorest, most of its jobs tied to a thin strip of irrigated land surrounded by desert. San Diego and the Golden State’s prosperous coast lie only 100 miles away across a jumble of mountains, but it might as well be another world.

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Two Companies See a Golden Opportunity in the Tijuana River’s Brown Waters

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

We’re letting millions of gallons of sewage-contaminated Tijuana River water go to waste by tossing it to the Pacific Ocean.

That’s the opinion of two competing forces – one from the United States and another from Mexico – that are rethinking the region’s oldest and dirtiest problem, imagining it instead as a moneymaking opportunity.

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FPUD Board, Others Tour Conjunctive Use Project Progress

/in , , /by /Fallbrook Village Newsby Joe Naiman

The Fallbrook Public Utility District held a Nov. 10 tour of the Santa Margarita Conjunctive Use Project.

All five FPUD board members participated in the tour. If a majority of board members are present, an activity must be noticed as a public meeting, and members of the public were also invited to join the tour.

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Major Changes to Poway’s Water System in Works

/in , , /by /Poway News Chieftain (San Diego Union-Tribune)by Emily Sorensen Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The Poway City Council approved several initial steps at Tuesday night’s meeting which could lead to a massive water improvement program for the city. The improvement program, if completed, would be the largest capital improvement program Poway has ever undertaken, said Shadi Sami, principal civil engineer for the city.

The program consists of several parts, but would ultimately replace the city’s existing, decades-old clear well with new storage reservoirs. It would also connect the city with the San Diego Water Authority’s treated water, creating treated water pipelines, a pump station and forebay. Currently, Poway only receives raw water from the SDCWA.

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Otay Ranch Resort Village, with 1,938 Homes, Wins County Supervisors’ OK

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby City News Service

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Wednesday voted 4-1 in favor of Otay Ranch Resort Village 13, a mixed-use community to be developed near the city of Chula Vista.

When completed, Otay Ranch Resort Village will feature 1,938 energy-efficient homes, a fire station, sheriff’s station, trails, an elementary school, parks and open space, according to a county staff presentation.

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San Diego County Still Working on Climate Action Plan

/in , , /by /KPBS-FM/TVby Erik Anderson

San Diego County is already working on another climate action plan, hoping they can finally come up with one that stands up to legal scrutiny.

The county has, over the past 10 years, put together four climate action plans. Each was a spectacular failure.

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WaterSmart Contractor Incentive Program Benefits San Elijo HOA

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

A major landscape makeover is helping a San Diego County neighborhood save money during these uncertain economic times. The WaterSmart Contractor Incentive Program helps qualified landscape contractors as well as large homeowners associations, save money and improve water-use efficiency in large landscapes by retrofitting irrigation devices.

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Dry Heat, Wet Feet: Record Temperatures and King Tides Collide in Southern California

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

Towering high tides hitting the Southern California coast were met with record-high temperatures Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

The astronomical tides, known as king tides, occur when the moon is closest to Earth and are often the highest tides of the year, said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Combined with high surf, king tides can bring tidal overflows, minor beach erosion and an increased risk of drowning.

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Bezos Earth Fund Gives Salk $30 Million for Climate Change Mitigation Project

/in , , /by /Times of San Diego

Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative will receive $30 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to advance efforts to increase the ability of crop plants, such as corn and soybeans, to capture and store atmospheric carbon via their roots in the soil. This work will explore carbon-sequestration mechanisms in six of the world’s most prevalent crop species with the goal of increasing the plants’ carbon-storage capacity.

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Outsiders Are Wary of San Diego’s Multibillion-Dollar Pipeline Plan

/in , /by /Voice of San Diegoby MacKenzie Elmer Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Opposition is building against San Diego’s dream of erecting a $5 billion pipeline to the Colorado River in the name of resource independence.

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