San Diego County / Southern California
The latest news and analysis covering water issues in the San Diego County region and Southern California.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
IID Sues To Halt Colorado River Drought Plan Signed By Trump, Says Officials Ignored Salton Sea
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Janet WilsonIt’s not over yet. The Imperial Irrigation District has sued to halt a sweeping Colorado River drought plan that was signed in to law by President Trump on Tuesday. Officials with the sprawling, sparsely populated rural water district in southeastern California say the Salton Sea was wrongly left out of the plan. IID holds among […]
California Dispute Threatens Plan To Protect Colorado River
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Associated Pressby Felicia FonsecaA dispute between two major California water agencies is threatening to derail a hard-won agreement designed to protect a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. The Imperial Irrigation District, the largest single recipient of Colorado River water, on Tuesday sued a Los Angeles water utility that agreed to contribute most of […]
OPINION: Salton Sea 10-year ‘Rescue’ Plan Flawed, But Letting Lake Revert To Desert Would Be Folly
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Desert Sunby Bob Terry,Geraci proposes we forget about the birds and salinity of the Salton Sea and concentrate “limited resources” on human-related mitigation to the sea’s decline. He finds much fault with the state’s 10-year Plan commitment to 50 percent of the acreage mitigated being aquatic, which he contends is 20 times as expensive as playa mitigation accomplished […]
California Native Gardens Offer Surprising Results With Little Water
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Pasadena Star-Newsby Joshua SiskinThis spring’s flowers there are just so many of them cannot be compared to those of any spring in recent memory. Perennial plants native to dry climates and most of those in our gardens come from Mediterranean lands and the arid parts of South Africa and Australia, too are especially prone to flowering more after […]