Riverside’s utility hopes to make $3.5 million this year on a deal to sell water to a nearby water district. Last year, the city sold a small amount to customers of the Western Municipal Water District. Officials with Riverside Public Utilities and Western say the deal benefits both agencies’ customers by helping Riverside make up lost […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diegoby Kevin Dayton Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
Environmental activist Marco Gonzalez was irked to see the San Diego County Taxpayers Association recently give a Golden Watchdog award to the Carlsbad Desalination Plant. Besides arguing that the region should simply use less water, he argues that desalinated seawater is more expensive than imported water from the San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River. It’s […]
San Diegans are blessed with miles of beautiful coast and beaches, but all of that may be vastly different in a little more than one human lifetime. Children born today may see a San Diego with six more feet of sea by the time they are 84. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps track of various […]
When it comes to the biggest environmental problems — global warming, ongoing pollution of the water we drink and irrigate our crops with — it’s always disheartening to hear scientists say that looming disaster is practically impossible to prevent. Makes it hard to work up the energy to conceive the cure if all hope is lost. […]
Riverside Could Increase Sale of Unneeded Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Press-Enterprise (Riverside)by Alicia RobinsonRiverside’s utility hopes to make $3.5 million this year on a deal to sell water to a nearby water district. Last year, the city sold a small amount to customers of the Western Municipal Water District. Officials with Riverside Public Utilities and Western say the deal benefits both agencies’ customers by helping Riverside make up lost […]
OPINION: Desalination Plant’s Critics Are Partly to Blame for Expensive Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diegoby Kevin Dayton Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityEnvironmental activist Marco Gonzalez was irked to see the San Diego County Taxpayers Association recently give a Golden Watchdog award to the Carlsbad Desalination Plant. Besides arguing that the region should simply use less water, he argues that desalinated seawater is more expensive than imported water from the San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River. It’s […]
Video: Ocean Could Rise 6 Feet in San Diego by 2100
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Daniel WheatonSan Diegans are blessed with miles of beautiful coast and beaches, but all of that may be vastly different in a little more than one human lifetime. Children born today may see a San Diego with six more feet of sea by the time they are 84. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps track of various […]
OPINION: Change the Way California Farms for Water Safety
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Daily NewsWhen it comes to the biggest environmental problems — global warming, ongoing pollution of the water we drink and irrigate our crops with — it’s always disheartening to hear scientists say that looming disaster is practically impossible to prevent. Makes it hard to work up the energy to conceive the cure if all hope is lost. […]