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The city of San Diego released its first Climate Action Plan monitoring report Thursday, finding that its short-term goal for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions was essentially satisfied before the plan was even approved last December. The report outlined progress on emissions cuts during the past five years and found that by 2015, climate pollution had been reduced by 17 percent below the baseline year of 2010 — surpassing the plan’s targeted 15 percent reduction goal by 2020. The emissions cuts resulted largely from state and federal mandates to green up electrical grids and improve fuel-efficiency standards.

The City Council will consider increased water and wastewater rates Nov. 16. Per month, single family households that use 10 units of water, or 7,480 gallons, may see a $1.36 increase in water rates, and pay $1.21 more for wastewater. Higher water rates cover increases in the fixed service rate, unit cost and imported water pass-through charges.

Increased wastewater rates pay for greater fixed monthly charges, fixed service charges and wastewater flow charges. Greater rates keep services operating by covering increased costs for energy, treatment, regulatory compliance, maintenance and replacement of facilities and infrastructure.

Customers of the Santa Fe Irrigation District, who saw their water bills go up by an average of 9 percent on June 1, face another rate hike of as much as 15.8 percent on Jan. 1, 2017. At its meeting on Nov. 17, the board of directors of the district, which serves customers in Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe and Fairbanks Ranch, will consider the second installment of a three-year rate plan approved in May. That plan calls for three annual rate increases, averaging 9 percent per year.

The Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors approved $44 million in financial incentives for four water recycling projects Tuesday that will treat and deliver nearly 5.3 billion gallons of water a year, officials announced. The city of Torrance and Eastern Municipal Water District each will enter an agreement for large-scale recycling projects, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will handle two other projects to use recycled water for irrigation and industrial purposes. MWD will provide as much as $44 million in incentives for the projects over the next 25 years, under the four agreements.

For all the water saving tactics San Diego County residents have employed, they’re not helping nature take care of her own. This photograph, taken the morning of Oct. 7, shows all too acutely what drought means to Fallbrook. This is what’s left of the man-made pond in Los Jilgueros Preserve. Acquired by the Fallbrook Land Conservancy in 1990, plentiful rains once filled the preserve pond so that water flowed from it across a concrete dip in the major trail through the interior, making the trail nearly impassable.