San Diego County / Southern California

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

‘These Kids Deserve Water’: A San Diego County School District Has Lacked Clean Drinking Water For More Than A Decade

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Kristen Taketa

For 12 years San Diego County’s tiny, rural Warner Unified School District has had unsafe levels of arsenic in its drinking water. The district is still struggling to secure a permanent clean water solution, and its leaders have been frustrated with what they described as bureaucratic delays in the process.

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Here’s How San Diego’s Reservoirs are Faring After a Rainy Winter

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby David Garrick

San Diego’s nine city reservoirs have already captured enough rainwater since the beginning of the year to serve all of the city’s 1.4 million water customers for 56 days with no imported water, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

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WaterSmart Makeover: A Low-Water ‘Mountain Glade’ In Encinitas

/in , , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Caron Golden Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Oh, the things you do when you first buy a house that make you wish you’d known better. For Melanie and Rick Cullen, it was planting three liquidambar trees in their front yard around the time they moved into their Encinitas home back in 1986.

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East County Advanced Water Purification Program Makes Significant Construction Progress

/in , , /by /SD News

The East County Advanced Water Purification Program (East County AWP) has made significant progress since breaking ground on construction nearly two years ago. The Program will create a local, clean, safe and drought-proof drinking water supply using state-of-the-art technology to purify East San Diego County’s recycled water.

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