Lacking current polling data, it could be hard to determine if more people believe in El Niño or the Great Pumpkin. El Niño has fallen on hard times. Once considered a fairly reliable indicator of a wet winter in much of California, in recent years the periodic phenomenon has produced little rain and a growing […]
Cadiz, a water supply company, wants to pump out and sell 50,000 acre-feet of water from an aquifer under the Mojave Desert. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is trying to stop them. “It’s those aquifers that keep the plant life growing which nourish the animals — the bighorn sheep and the desert tortoises,” the California Democrat said […]
When Ronald Smith became ensnared in a corruption probe and resigned in disgrace from an obscure South Bay water agency, his board colleagues quickly vowed to impose changes to combat such ethical lapses. The Carson-based West Basin Municipal Water District, which has a $200 million budget and supplies imported water to 17 mostly South Bay cities, performed an […]
What started as a trickle of billing complaints surged into a flash flood of allegations raised about the city of San Diego’s Water Department. NBC 7 Responds’ investigation into billing errors led to the discovery of faulty water meters and a lack of transparency over the city’s multi-million-dollar smart meter program. Some of the team’s […]
Embrace El Nino or Ignore it: Guess San Diego’s Rainfall
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Robert KrierLacking current polling data, it could be hard to determine if more people believe in El Niño or the Great Pumpkin. El Niño has fallen on hard times. Once considered a fairly reliable indicator of a wet winter in much of California, in recent years the periodic phenomenon has produced little rain and a growing […]
Dry Lake Bed in Mojave Desert at Center of Water Debate
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /ABC 7 (Glendale, Calif.)by Leticia JuarezCadiz, a water supply company, wants to pump out and sell 50,000 acre-feet of water from an aquifer under the Mojave Desert. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is trying to stop them. “It’s those aquifers that keep the plant life growing which nourish the animals — the bighorn sheep and the desert tortoises,” the California Democrat said […]
4 Years After a Corruption Scandal, West Basin Water District Still Wrestling with Ethics
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /Daily Breeze (Torrance, Calif.)by David RosenfeldWhen Ronald Smith became ensnared in a corruption probe and resigned in disgrace from an obscure South Bay water agency, his board colleagues quickly vowed to impose changes to combat such ethical lapses. The Carson-based West Basin Municipal Water District, which has a $200 million budget and supplies imported water to 17 mostly South Bay cities, performed an […]
Flood of Distrust: A Deep Dive into San Diego’s Water Department
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /NBC San Diegoby Consumer Bob, Tom Jones, Dorian Hargrove, Mark Sackett and Erica ByersWhat started as a trickle of billing complaints surged into a flash flood of allegations raised about the city of San Diego’s Water Department. NBC 7 Responds’ investigation into billing errors led to the discovery of faulty water meters and a lack of transparency over the city’s multi-million-dollar smart meter program. Some of the team’s […]