San Diego Region Gets a Break on Water Conservation Goals

State officials certified the San Diego region’s billion-dollar desalination plant as a drought resilient water supply. That plant in Carlsbad turns sea water into 50 million gallons of drinking water each day.

State recognition means the region’s mandatory water cutbacks are being eased from 20 percent, to about 13 percent. “Now the regulation acknowledges that we in San Diego County have invested in a drought resilient supply that does help us in providing that reliable water supply,” said Bob Yamada of the San Diego County Water Authority.