(May 13, 2009, The Los Angeles Times)
Reporting from San Diego — A plan by a private company to build a $320-million desalination plant along the coast of northern San Diego County was unanimously approved Wednesday by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Proponents say the plan could provide more than 56,000 acre-feet of drinkable [...]
(May 4, 2009, KPBS)
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants the city council to approve his call for mandatory water restrictions. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.
Sanders says voluntary water conservation has saved about 5%, but he says that isn’t enough to meet the water restrictions coming this summer.
He wants to impose Level 2 mandatory [...]
(April 24, 2009, The Mercury News)
A $10 billion plan to build a canal around the Delta would not deliver significantly more water to cities and farms if it were in place this year, new data shows.
Water agencies and politicians from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on down have repeatedly stressed that water shortages this year from the [...]
(April 24, 2009, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
After months of warnings and voluntary conservation programs, the San Diego County Water Authority yesterday moved to Level 2 drought alert.
The decision will spark mandatory water rationing of about 8 percent for residents throughout the county, from San Ysidro to Fallbrook. The planned restrictions include bans on certain [...]
(March 21, 2009, The San Francisco Chronicle)
A statewide drought emergency has prompted San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders to propose a plan that would reduce the city’s water use by about 20 percent.
The plan announced on Friday would require residents to cut their outdoor water use by 45 percent, and their indoor water use by 5 [...]
(March 16, 2009, The San Diego Tribune)
With its vast reserves running precariously low, the Metropolitan Water District has widened its unending search for water to even more distant sources.
Since 2007, Metropolitan’s stockpiles have shrunk by nearly half, drained by a combination of drought, diversions to safeguard fish, cuts in Colorado River supplies and population growth.
As [...]
(March 7, 2009, MSNBC)
Using the back yard of a Tierrasanta resident as a backdrop, Mayor Jerry Sanders called on San Diegans to get serious about water conservation.
Sanders revealed what he has done personally to conserve and showed clear disappointment in the overall efforts of San Diegans.
“Despite some successes, we still continue to fall shrt of [...]
(March 6, 2009, David Zetland, Aguanomics)
(via DW) The Mayor’s office sent out this press release [pdf] yesterday:
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is calling on all San Diegans to step up water conservation efforts in the wake of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state of emergency declaration for California’s water supplies.
“The Governor’s message is right on target,” said [...]
(Feb. 24, 2009, Aguanomics)
San Diego is looking north for water this year, working out a number of smaller option agreements with Sacramento Valley Districts. I looked into one 10,000 AF transfer with South Feather Water and Power to get a handle on numbers for this year.
San Diego is paying $10 per acre-foot for the option [...]
(Feb. 24, 2009, The San Diego Union Tribune)
The punishing drought that threatens to disrupt California’s economy could also exact a heavy toll on the environment, from the Anza-Borrego Desert to the mountains casting shadows on Lake Tahoe.
Water managers are bracing to get by with just a trickle of the normal deliveries from state and [...]
(Feb. 23, 2009, David Zetland, Aguanomics)
I’m thinking that the water managers and politicians in San Diego must be drinking something other than simple, tasty water. It seems that they are bound and determined to implement the most-stupid possible water rationing scheme, i.e.,
Even San Diegans who have torn out their lawns, planted drought-tolerant landscaping and scrimped [...]
(Feb. 12, 2009, Aguanomics)
I have criticized rationing as uneconomical, and I have criticized dumb rationing as unfair, yet water managers continue to pursue it.
What do I mean by that? Cutting EVERYONE back by 20% when supply falls by 20%. That’s not only lame compared to raising prices, but it’s patently unfair to cut water wasters [...]
(Jan. 28, 2009, The Mercury News)
San Diego needs to watch its water use.Mayor Jerry Sanders said Tuesday that water rationing for residents is likely to be imposed by July 1, the beginning of San Diego’s next fiscal year.
Sanders says the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California may soon slash deliveries to the region by as [...]
We’ve been watching water rates jump here and there, 5%, 10%, sometimes 20% or 30%, all across the nation for the last year. But shocking news was delivered today that San Diego customers may soon have a 200% to 400% water rate increase on their hands!
There’s some SERIOUS groundwork (or groundwater-work) for water rationing, followed [...]
(Nov. 29, 2008, The San Diego Tribune)
The City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to raise water and sewage rates.
(Oct. 28, 2008, San Diego Union-Tribune)
Water districts in more urban areas of the county such as San Diego, Encinitas and Del Mar made big strides to reduce their use of tap water over the summer.
But increased conservation by residents and businesses in those communities was essentially offset by rural districts, where farmers didn’t conserve [...]
(Oct. 17, 2008, San Diego Union-Tribune)
WEST SACRAMENTO – California must retool how it uses, moves and stores water to meet the state’s growing population and protect public health and the environment, a panel appointed by the governor said Friday.
In its final report, the seven-member Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force said Californians should consider a [...]
