This database contains press and video clips on water issues of interest to the San Diego County Water Authority.

January 21, 2010

San Diego Daily Trancsript

San Diego Water moves up $625 million bond sale on buyer demand
By: Dunstan McNicho (Bloomberg News)

The San Diego County Water Authority, the wholesale water provider for 3 million Southern Californians, went to market a day early with about $625 million in taxable Build America Bonds and tax-exempt debt, citing demand.

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North County Times

Letters to the Editor

I know in our current drought conditions, we are supposed to save water. But where is the incentive from our water bills? I just sent my water bill to the Rainbow Municipal Water District.

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Sacramento Bee

Science panel's review of California water woes prompts fight
By: Matt Weiser

An elite science panel's work to clarify California's water problems has become, instead, the latest front in a battle over the Delta's endangered species.

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Riverside Press-Enterprise

Congressional hearing will focus on Southern California's drought-coping strategies
By: Janet Zimmerman

Southern California's water conservation, recycling and other strategies for dealing with chronic shortages caused by three years of drought will be the topic of a rare congressional hearing in Los Angeles next week.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column: Where to find one million acre-feet of water for California
By: Peter Gleick

Californians have improved their efficiency of water use over the past 25 years. The state's economy and population have grown. But total water use has not grown, and per person, each Californian uses far less today.

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Business Wire

Federal Agencies' "Double Standard" on Fish Science Compels Call for Relief from Endangered Species Act

The public agency responsible for supplying water to more than a million acres of the Central Valley as well as 1.8 million people in the Bay Area today called on California's senior Senator Diane Feinstein and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

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The Economist

The Appalachia of the West

MIKE CHRISMAN looks out from his SUV as he drives through seemingly endless rows of walnut trees on his property near Visalia, in central California.

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