San Diego County / Southern California

The latest news and analysis covering water issues in the San Diego County region and Southern California.

Between Storms, Officials Urge Safety

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Joshua Stewart

A week after storms flooded parts of the region and covered some roads with several feet of water; officials are reminding drivers that they should not, despite how safe they think they might be, try to drive a car through a flooded street.   “Please do not drive around the barricades, they are there for […]

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California Struggles over Water Storage for Farmers

/in /by /Inland News Today (Riverside)

Keeping California’s agricultural land in production depends on fixing its growing water problems.   As the state considers its options, many farmers want to revive the approach that worked for them in the last century: building dams. Not far from this tiny hamlet northeast of Fresno, for instance, the government is thinking of building a […]

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How an Anonymous Blogger Stands Out On California Water Policy

/in /by /The Los Angeles Timesby By Peter H. King

On a Thursday in February four years ago, the self-described “low-level civil servant” who produces OnthePublicRecord.org, an anonymous blog about California water, posted an existential lament about life amid the policy wonks.   “Sometimes I wonder what terrible thing I did wrong in a previous lifetime that I must now spend so much of my […]

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How-To Guru: Surviving El Nino

/in /by /The Guardian (UCSD)

This is it folks. This year’s Monster El Niño has finally hit! The incessant ringing of flash flood and tornado warnings on everyone’s phones are causing panic and chaos all over Southern California. Branches are falling, bugs are drowning, fire alarms are ringing and umbrellas are being torn to shreds. San Diegans are wondering why […]

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