San Diego County / Southern California

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

You May Survive The Big One, But LA’s Water Supply May Not

/in , /by /KCRW Radio Los Angeles by Steve Chiotakis

Seismologist Lucy Jones hikes through a dirt trail into a canyon, past a riverbed, and through some brush in Altadena. She kneels down and points at a thick layer of greenish-grey clay, snaking through the sloping terrain among rocks and dirt. “This is the fault! Isn’t it amazing?”

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Helix Pledges Additional $2.5 Million For Padre Dam Reclaimed Water Plan

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Karen Pearlman

The Helix Water District says it remains committed to the East County Advanced Water Purification Project, a multimillion-dollar, multi-agency recycled water project facilitated by the Padre Dam Municipal Water District in Santee.

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The State Cited San Diego Water Officials for Water Treatment Failure

/in , /by /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard

For the better part of a day this April, San Diego’s main drinking water treatment plant wasn’t doing everything it was supposed to do to kill viruses and a nasty parasite known as Giardia before reaching taps across parts of the city, North County, East County and South Bay.

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Environment Report: The Earthquake Risk No One’s Talking About

/in , /by /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard

San Diego faces a hidden earthquake threat — to its water supply. A quake, even one so far away that nobody in San Diego feels it, could cause an emergency and force mandatory water-use restrictions. That’s because most of San Diego’s water comes from hundreds of miles away through threads of metal and concrete that […]

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