An annual study finds high bacteria levels and low oxygen levels in creeks and streams of inland San Diego County, and concludes water quality is suffering amid the ongoing drought. The Los Angeles Times says the 2015 San Diego Coastkeeper report released this week ranked the inland water quality as fair to poor – with no […]
The weather phenomenon known as El Nino is fading, and drought conditions remain entrenched in San Diego and the rest of California, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced a 75 percent chance that a La Nina pattern could form in El Nino’s […]
“If you’re going to be serious about using markets to allocate water, the first thing you have to do is let the market determine the price,” says Reed Watson, the executive director at the Property and Environment Research Center, or PERC, a nonprofit think tank based in Bozeman, Montana. If California wants to ease the effects […]
Leaks from a petroleum storage plant have contaminated the land and befouled drinking water under San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium for decades, the city claims in lawsuit against Kinder Morgan. The Tuesday lawsuit in Superior Court accuses Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and affiliates of dumping “hundreds of thousands of gallons of dangerous poisons and harmful […]
Drought Harming Water Quality in Inland San Diego County
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)An annual study finds high bacteria levels and low oxygen levels in creeks and streams of inland San Diego County, and concludes water quality is suffering amid the ongoing drought. The Los Angeles Times says the 2015 San Diego Coastkeeper report released this week ranked the inland water quality as fair to poor – with no […]
El Nino Conditions Fading; Drought Still Alive in California
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Times of San Diego by by Hoa QuachThe weather phenomenon known as El Nino is fading, and drought conditions remain entrenched in San Diego and the rest of California, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced a 75 percent chance that a La Nina pattern could form in El Nino’s […]
The Solution to California’s Drought: A Free Market in Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Reason (Los Angeles) by By Alex Manning“If you’re going to be serious about using markets to allocate water, the first thing you have to do is let the market determine the price,” says Reed Watson, the executive director at the Property and Environment Research Center, or PERC, a nonprofit think tank based in Bozeman, Montana. If California wants to ease the effects […]
San Diego Fights Kinder Morgan Over Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Courthouse News Service (Pasadena)by By Don DebenedictisLeaks from a petroleum storage plant have contaminated the land and befouled drinking water under San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium for decades, the city claims in lawsuit against Kinder Morgan. The Tuesday lawsuit in Superior Court accuses Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and affiliates of dumping “hundreds of thousands of gallons of dangerous poisons and harmful […]