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The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
OPINION: For San Diego’s Quality of Life, What Gets Measured Gets Managed
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Times of San Diegoby Peter James MacCracken and Mikaela Bolling Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityThe Equinox Project of the Center for Sustainable Energy has a pretty good idea of what comprises “quality of life,” having just released its 2018 San Diego Regional Quality of Life Dashboard reporting on 15 indicators of just that … quality of life. Available to everyone online, this is the ninth annual dashboard.
How Jerry Brown Helped Get The Tunnels Deal Across The Finish Line
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Voice of San Diegoby Sara Libby Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityBefore some members of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted this week to spend $11 billion on a new water project, several of them got a call from Gov. Jerry Brown urging them to support the project. For decades, Brown has been working to improve the north-south water delivery system created by his […]
10 Questions About The 11 Proposals To Save The Salton Sea
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /The Desert Sunby Samuel MetzLess than fifteen miles from where Beyonce took the stage at the Coachella Music Festival, the Salton Sea is in crisis. As evaporation causes the sea’s shoreline to recede, more of the toxic chemical matter previously embedded in the water is being exposed and swept up into the atmosphere by desert winds.
Tunnel Vision: What The Big Water Vote Means
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityLast fall, after years of study, the state’s largest water agency voted to spend $4 billion on a new project to bring water south from Northern California’s rivers. Other water agencies were supposed to help pay, but most backed out. On Tuesday, after a few weeks of scrambling, Metropolitan decided the project was worth nearly […]