/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant
In the past several months, three schools in the San Diego region have revealed the presence of alarming levels of lead in their drinking water. Lead is unsafe at any level and it is especially damaging to children’s brains. Now, San Diego Unified and other school districts across the county are moving to test many […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby James DeHaven Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
If a government meeting convenes in San Diego and there’s no agenda or minutes, did it really happen? This is one of the questions California lawmakers hoped to avoid with passage of the Brown Act, the 1953 open meeting law that generally prohibits a majority of the members of a public board or council from […]
/in San Diego County/by Andrea Mora /The Delta Confluence (Sacramento) Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the Salton Sea Task Force released a ten-year plan to protect habitat and human health for the state’s largest inland lake that has been plagued by decreased flows, drought and rapidly increasing salinity and pollutants. Exposed playa, or lakebed, along the sea’s shores create toxic dust, as many […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Fallbrook and Bonsall Village News Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
On March 22, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution in support of efforts by the San Diego County Water Authority to recover nearly $250 million in illegal charges imposed on local water users in recent years by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, and calling on MWD to […]
Lead In Water At San Diego Schools: What We Know And Don’t Know
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination PlantIn the past several months, three schools in the San Diego region have revealed the presence of alarming levels of lead in their drinking water. Lead is unsafe at any level and it is especially damaging to children’s brains. Now, San Diego Unified and other school districts across the county are moving to test many […]
Board Members Get Paid For Meetings That Aren’t Public
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby James DeHaven Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityIf a government meeting convenes in San Diego and there’s no agenda or minutes, did it really happen? This is one of the questions California lawmakers hoped to avoid with passage of the Brown Act, the 1953 open meeting law that generally prohibits a majority of the members of a public board or council from […]
Salton Sea Restoration No Longer Waiting For Dust To Settle
/in San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /The Delta Confluence (Sacramento) Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityThe California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the Salton Sea Task Force released a ten-year plan to protect habitat and human health for the state’s largest inland lake that has been plagued by decreased flows, drought and rapidly increasing salinity and pollutants. Exposed playa, or lakebed, along the sea’s shores create toxic dust, as many […]
San Diego Leaders Call On MWD To ‘Stop The Spending!’
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Fallbrook and Bonsall Village News Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityOn March 22, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution in support of efforts by the San Diego County Water Authority to recover nearly $250 million in illegal charges imposed on local water users in recent years by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, and calling on MWD to […]