The San Diego County Water Authority is offering a rebate for homeowners willing to replace their lawns with more water-friendly landscape. Residents in the water authority’s service area can apply to get a rebate of $3 for every square-foot of lawn they replace with drought-tolerant plants; $2 will be provided by the Metropolitan Water District […]
How should power over water decisions in San Diego be divided? Should the city of San Diego, which represents almost 40 percent of the region’s water consumers, have the most sway? Or should smaller cities be on equal footing when the outcome of a decision could harm towns with less people and money? That is […]
The Imperial Irrigation District focuses on providing water and energy supply to Imperial County and some parts of Riverside and San Diego counties. Recent elections had two open seats for the IID Board of Directors — Divisions 2 and 4, which were filled by Bruce Kuhn and Erik Ortega respectively. With the incumbents’ loss, the […]
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla on Tuesday alerted students, faculty and staff that the university’s wastewater monitoring system detected SARS CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19 — in multiple sites on Sunday and Monday. “Our early detection system identified active virus in the wastewater outflow in the five campus areas from 11 a.m. on […]
Homeowners Can Apply For Rebates to Transform Their Landscape. Here’s How
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Kimberlyn Velasquez /NBC 7 San DiegoThe San Diego County Water Authority is offering a rebate for homeowners willing to replace their lawns with more water-friendly landscape. Residents in the water authority’s service area can apply to get a rebate of $3 for every square-foot of lawn they replace with drought-tolerant plants; $2 will be provided by the Metropolitan Water District […]
Another Agency Wrestles With a Weighted Voting Structure
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diego by MacKenzie Elmer Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityHow should power over water decisions in San Diego be divided? Should the city of San Diego, which represents almost 40 percent of the region’s water consumers, have the most sway? Or should smaller cities be on equal footing when the outcome of a decision could harm towns with less people and money? That is […]
IID Board to Seat Two New Faces, Current Board Members Look to the Future
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Desert Reviewby Eniyah JackmanThe Imperial Irrigation District focuses on providing water and energy supply to Imperial County and some parts of Riverside and San Diego counties. Recent elections had two open seats for the IID Board of Directors — Divisions 2 and 4, which were filled by Bruce Kuhn and Erik Ortega respectively. With the incumbents’ loss, the […]
UCSD Detects COVID-19-Causing Virus in Multiple Wastewater Samples on Campus
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /KPBS-FM/TVby City News ServiceUC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla on Tuesday alerted students, faculty and staff that the university’s wastewater monitoring system detected SARS CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19 — in multiple sites on Sunday and Monday. “Our early detection system identified active virus in the wastewater outflow in the five campus areas from 11 a.m. on […]