San Diego

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Water rates going up, up, up

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

October 29, 2025

From the Voice of San Diego: San Diego City Councilmembers on Tuesday begrudgingly voted to hike the city’s water rates...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: While San Diego leaders balk at high rates, city debates less-ambitious sewage recycling plan

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

October 28, 2025

Less recycled sewage into drinking water means more reliance on the increasingly unstable Colorado River and expensive desal By MacKenzie...

CA AGRICULTURE: UC Cooperative Extension advisor provides first-of-its-kind avocado irrigation data

UC Ag and Natural Resources (UCANR)

Agriculture

October 16, 2025

Study findings from Southern California avocado orchards help growers save water and money. From California Agriculture: Perched precariously on the...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Mayor’s water rate increase ‘dead on arrival’

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

October 1, 2025

San Diego city councilmembers join forces to stall a proposed rate increase even though city staff warn too much delay...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Sweetwater Authority joins stampede away from County Water Authority

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

October 1, 2025

The agency supplying drinking water to a large swath of South San Diego County is exploring a groundwater desalination project...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: City staff deflect blame away from Pure Water before San Diego’s big water rate vote

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

September 25, 2025

City staff dropped updated costs of a huge wastewater-to-drinking water recycling project showing that its water would be cheaper than...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: San Diegans owe a desal company $35 million for unmade water

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

September 23, 2025

The plant had to shut down operations to make state-mandated upgrades, but the San Diego County Water Authority still must...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Blowing up the Water Authority isn’t off the table at LAFCO

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

September 10, 2025

The group that rubber stamped a divorce from the agency plans to look at getting rid of the agency altogether....

ILRP: Second Irrigated Lands Expert Panel meeting features Indigenous perspectives and a lot of data

Jane Sooby

Water quality

August 20, 2025

By Jane Sooby Day 2 of the Second Statewide Agricultural Expert Panel’s “Kick Off Meeting” convened August 14, 2025, at...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: San Diego’s water sellers are thirsty for revenue

Voice of San Diego

Planning and management

August 8, 2025

By Mackenzie Elmer, Voice of San Diego This story was first published by Voice of San Diego. Sign up for VOSD’s...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: As climate-related wastewater threats grow, U.S. and Mexico sign a deal to end the Tijuana sewage crisis

Inside Climate News

Water quality

July 30, 2025

Under the agreement, the countries are committed to updating outdated wastewater infrastructure to handle higher flows. By Kiley Price, Inside...

NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast

NASA/JPL

ScienceWater quality

June 19, 2025

Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could...

COMMENTARY: The Water Authority built San Diego’s economy. Support it; Don’t tear it down

Voice of San Diego

CommentaryPolicy and regulation

June 5, 2025

This piece was submitted to the Voice of San Diego by 16 past chairs of the San Diego Regional Chamber...

PRESS RELEASE: Southern California water agencies end lengthy legal dispute

Metropolitan Water District

Water rights and water law

June 3, 2025

Settlement agreement aims to bring region greater fiscal stability, water supply efficiency and reliability Press release from the Metropolitan Water...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Big Los Angeles-San Diego water settlement reached

Voice of San Diego

Water rights and water law

June 2, 2025

By Scott Lewis, Voice of San Diego The San Diego County Water Authority and Metropolitan Water District are set to...