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The San Diego County Water Authority hopes to recover more than $250 million in fees it says it was overcharged by the Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District. Local water managers already won a lower court ruling. A judge found Metropolitan over-charged San Diego for water during a four-year period. Attorney Dan Purcell was hired by San Diego water managers to litigate the case. He argued the San Diego Water Authority negotiated a long-term contract to buy water from the Imperial Valley, replacing the water they had bought from Metropolitan.

 

As San Diegans start to crank up their air conditioners, the city and the San Diego County Water Authority are developing a way to store energy by using water. Water officials said it’s expected to save ratepayers money in the long run, according to a May 4 report by the ABC-TV affiliate KGTV San Diego. The city and authority want to build an energy storage facility at the San Vicente Reservoir, about 25 miles northeast of San Diego.

As former Sen. Barbara Boxer noted in her op-ed “South state desalination project is a ‘no-brainer’ ” (Viewpoints, April 30), California is facing a hotter and drier future. In order to keep our communities and economy thriving, we need to develop smart and reliable local water supplies. Fortunately, we can meet long-term needs without resorting to billion-dollar boondoggles like the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant. There is a reason desalination companies are spending millions of dollars in lobbying. Proposals like the Huntington Beach plant can’t stand on their own merit.

As San Diegans start to crank their air conditioners, the city and the San Diego County Water Authority are developing a way to store energy by using water.  Water officials said it’s expected to save ratepayers money in the long run. The city and authority want to build an Energy Storage Facility at the San Vicente Reservoir.  Right now, the reservoir is an emergency water storage for San Diego.  It holds enough water to last 500,000 households an entire year. “Which would be vital if we couldn’t get water into the region,” said SDCWA Energy Program Manager Kelly Rodgers.

When Gov. Jerry Brown pronounced an end to the drought emergency last month — but not to the possibility of another drought — it would have been just like him to quote another eminent Californian, the naturalist John Muir, who said that “we all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.” Not enough trees, though, which is why making “urban forests” come true truly matters.