San Diego County / Southern California
The latest news and analysis covering water issues in the San Diego County region and Southern California.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
Could Fish Waste Be Key In California’s Drought Fight?
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /10News (San Diego)by By Joe LittleA San Diego-area nonprofit group believes fish waste may be the best cure for California’s drought. The local organization ECOLIFE Conservation uses grant funding to create sustainable vegetable gardens that rely on fish waste to fertilize plants. The process is called aquaponics, and the Environmental Club at Patrick Henry High School is the […]
El Niño Gearing Up For ‘Second Peak’ in Southern California
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Curbed LAby By Bianca BarraganIt’s a little too soon to write of this season’s El Niño as a no-show, just because a punishing succession of drenching storms has yet to materialize. The weather phenomenon is still on, even if the drizzles in Southern California and the harder rain up north that are happening now aren’t really El Niño-driven, according […]
What Happened To El Niño? Be Patient, L.A., It’ll Come, Expert Says
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Los Angeles Timesby By Rong-Gong Lin IIWhen the first hints of El Niño developed last year, experts believed that the brunt of the rain would occur in Southern California rather than Northern California. So far this season, the opposite has happened. Since Oct. 1, San Francisco was at 100% of average rainfall as of Monday; Eureka at 142% and Fresno, […]
Study: Borrego Water Woes Dire
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By J. Harry JonesA study recently completed by the U.S. Geological Survey confirms what people in the tiny desert town of Borrego Springs have suspected for some time: Their only source of water, deep below the earth, is being depleted at a rate roughly four times faster than it is being replenished. The six-year study, done in […]