A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores — climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities. The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Rancho Santa Fe Review by Joe Tash Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
In a proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the Santa Fe Irrigation District expects an increase in water sales revenue of $4 million over the current year, according to report presented at the agency’s board meeting on Thursday, April 20. The district attributes that increase to two factors – an 8 […]
Although Los Angeles city water customers paid extra for costly imported water during the five-year drought, their water bills will drop very little now that the Department of Water and Power has a plentiful supply of its own, officials said. The DWP surplus does not translate into big savings for individual bill payers because water […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby James DeHaven Quoted: Mark Muir and Mike Lee
Members of the San Diego County Water Authority met behind closed doors more than 100 times last year — four times as often as they met in public. State law limits the scope and frequency of such unnoticed, unrecorded meetings so as to prevent officials from hiding their activities from the public, which pays for […]
Rising Seas Are Claiming California’s Coast Faster Than Scientists Predicted
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Times of San Diegoby Julie CartA slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores — climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities. The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some […]
Santa Fe Irrigation District Faces Brighter Financial Outlook
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Rancho Santa Fe Review by Joe Tash Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityIn a proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the Santa Fe Irrigation District expects an increase in water sales revenue of $4 million over the current year, according to report presented at the agency’s board meeting on Thursday, April 20. The district attributes that increase to two factors – an 8 […]
Why LADWP Customers Won’t See A Big Snowmelt Dividend On Their Bills
/in San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /KPCC (Pasadena) by Sharon McNaryAlthough Los Angeles city water customers paid extra for costly imported water during the five-year drought, their water bills will drop very little now that the Department of Water and Power has a plentiful supply of its own, officials said. The DWP surplus does not translate into big savings for individual bill payers because water […]
Water Authority Members Meet More In Private Than Public
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby James DeHaven Quoted: Mark Muir and Mike LeeMembers of the San Diego County Water Authority met behind closed doors more than 100 times last year — four times as often as they met in public. State law limits the scope and frequency of such unnoticed, unrecorded meetings so as to prevent officials from hiding their activities from the public, which pays for […]