San Diego County / Southern California

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

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

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.

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

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.

East County Advanced Water Purification Program Makes Significant Construction Progress

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.

OPINION – Why This Year’s Average California Snowpack Is no Reason for Celebration

Wearing snowshoes and aviator sunglasses, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood in a field near Lake Tahoe recently and listened as an engineer from the Department of Water Resources announced the results of California’s April snow survey, which is conducted every year when snow depths in the Sierra Nevada reach their maximum.