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Local civic and business leaders have launched a “Stop the Spending” campaign when it comes to water rates. The San Diego County Water Authority says San Diegans are being overcharged for water. The agency is calling on one of its main suppliers – the Metropolitan Water District – to stop unnecessary water rate increases. “This organization in Los Angeles is spending $1.2 billion dollars on unnecessary things that we, as rate payers in San Diego, are having to pay part of,” said Jim Madaffer, the San Diego County Water Authority Vice Chair.

The San Diego County Water Authority says customers are being overcharged for water and it’s blaming one of its main suppliers. Water is a resource we can’t live without, but does that make it priceless? The San Diego County Water Authority says no and we’re overpaying for it.The water authority says the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California or MWD is the problem.

The San Diego County Water Authority lowered the level of Lake Hodges Tuesday as another big winter storm approached San Diego. The reservoir, which had been filled to within four feet of capacity, was lowered at the request of the City of San Diego, which owns the facilility. Some 7,500 acre-feet of water was pumped to the nearby Olivenhain Reservoir, allowing Lake Hodges to capture runoff from the storm forecast to begin Tuesday night and last into Thursday

The San Diego County Water Authority announced today that it transferred water out of Lake Hodges for the first time to create room to capture rain and runoff from storms expected to move into the region this week. Lake Hodges, in the North County roughly between Escondido and Rancho Bernardo, rose to nearly four feet of capacity from rains during a wet winter for the San Diego region.

Mayor Eric Garcetti proclaimed a state of emergency Monday, citing concerns that melting snowpack in the eastern Sierra Nevada could flood homes and highways in the Owens Valley and damage the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The proclamation, which takes effect immediately and lasts seven days, is designed to help the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power protect its pumps, pipes and reservoirs in the Owens Valley and surrounding areas.