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Opinion: Biden Should Declare an Emergency on Tijuana Sewage in San Diego. Newsom Should Demand It.

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union Tribuneby The San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Board

Local leaders are finally losing patience with the federal government’s anemic response to San Diego’s environmental nightmare. Now it’s the governor’s turn. For decades, an appalling aspect of life in the San Diego region has been the constant specter of untreated sewage from broken infrastructure in Tijuana flowing into the Pacific and fouling beaches, marshes and coastal areas on the U.S. side of the border from San Ysidro to Coronado.

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Nifty Fifty Plant Choices Featured in Winning Escondido Landscape

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

Escondido homeowners Marcus and Leanne F. decided it was time for a landscape makeover two years ago when their effort to keep their lawn green required a lot of water. But they didn’t know where to start, lacking experience with landscape design and working with a limited budget.

The couple started from the beginning, and the result was a waterwise landscape selected as the City of Escondido’s 2023 Landscape Makeover Contest winner.

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Long Beach Commission Approves 9% Hike in Water Bills

/in , , /by /ABC 7 Los Angelesby Staff

Long Beach water customers will likely see their bills increase this year.

This comes after the Utilities Commission approved a 9% increase for water usage Monday.

The increase would add just over $5 to the average single-family household’s bill starting Oct. 1.

A public hearing on the rates is tentatively scheduled for August.

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Supervisors Declare State of Emergency on Cross-Border Pollution, Sewage

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Elizabeth Ireland

San Diego County supervisors unanimously approved a proclamation Tuesday declaring a state of emergency due to pollution and sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Board Chairwoman Nora Vargas and Vice Chair Terra Lawson-Remer introduced the proclamation, which asks Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to issue similar declarations, “suspend red tape that may hinder response efforts, and expedite access to federal resources for San Diego County.”

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Senator Padilla Secures Critical Investments for Imperial Valley in 2023/24 State Budget

/in , /by /Imperial Valley Press

On Tuesday, June 27, the California Legislature passed the 2023/24 state budget, which included critical investments in projects around the Imperial Valley.

According to a press release from the Office of Sen. Steve Padilla, Senator Padilla, whose district includes all of Imperial County, worked with legislative leaders to secure these investments in the Valley’s future. These projects will spur new investments in lithium separation and battery production, pave roads to help residents to travel around rural communities safely, improve water quality in heavy agricultural-use regions of the state, and assist communities delivering humanitarian aid to asylum seekers, according to the release.

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Family Friendly Watershed Approach Wins Olivenhain MWD 2023 Landscape Makeover Contest

/in , , /by /Water News Network

By taking a watershed approach to his landscape redesign, homeowner Brad Lefkowits won the Olivenhain Municipal Water District’s 2023 Landscape Makeover Contest. The WaterSmart Landscape Contest is held annually by water agencies throughout San Diego County.

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Santa Fe Irrigation District Celebrates 100 Years of Service

/in , , /by /Rancho Santa Fe Review

The Santa Fe Irrigation District commemorated its 100-year anniversary at a “Century of Service” celebration on June 21 with community leaders and neighbors.

The district was established in 1923 as a California Special District under the Irrigation District Act of 1887 and currently provides drinking and recycled water services for more than 19,800 residents in the City of Solana Beach, as well as the unincorporated communities of Rancho Santa Fe and Fairbanks Ranch.

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Opinion: California Must Modernize its Water System to Avoid Extremes of Drought to Flood

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Gary Arant

Most of California exists under dueling states of emergency. Since February, storms have caused emergency-level flooding and damage in 47 of the state’s 58 counties, yet most of California only recently exited a drought emergency.

One rainy season can’t supplant years of drought, but images of flooded cities and towns — and the injuries and deaths caused by these disasters — are made more painful when we hear that our state is running out of water nevertheless. The question that water managers and state policymakers must address is how to adapt our water system to eliminate the dual states of emergency.

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Rep. Peters Seeks Update on Mexico’s Efforts To End Sewage Flow From Tijuana

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Chris Jennewein

Rep. Scott Peters has called on Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila to provide updates on the status of projects in Mexico to reduce wastewater pollution, including the construction of a new sewage treatment facility in Tijuana. Mexico has pledged to spend $144 million in 2022 to build sanitation infrastructure to stop the sewage outflow that frequently forces beaches to close in San Diego County.

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Opinion: One Big Question for San Diegans as La Jolla Considers Leaving is, ‘What About the Water?’

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribune by Tim Cooper Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

News reports about the campaign for La Jolla to secede from San Diego overlook some basic facts about critical infrastructure that will make or break a Southern California city in the next 30 years. The simple, visible elements like potholes, streetlights and sidewalks are only a tiny fraction of the infrastructure puzzle. The real problem is the water and sewer infrastructure that we don’t see.

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