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

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Imperial Valley Press
Former Imperial Irrigation District General Manager Jesse Silva to run water department
By Elizabeth Varin
A former Imperial Irrigation District general manager will take over as the district’s water department manager six years after his retirement.
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Imperial
Valley Press
IID Board gets QSA budget report
By Elizabeth Zarin
It won’t be long before the fate of the largest agriculture-to-urban water transfer is decided, but the Imperial Irrigation District is already looking at the tens of millions of dollars it is set to lose should the agreement be ruled invalid.
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Imperial Valley Press
IID to hold public benefit charge rate hearings
By Elizabeth Varin
The Imperial Irrigation District has set rate hearing dates to discuss keeping a public benefit charge on customers’ bills.
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KPBS
Estuary Reborn In South San Diego Bay
Former Salt Ponds Restored To Natural Habitat
By Ed Joyce, Nicholas McVicker
For more than 50 years a 200-acre section of South San Diego Bay was cut off from the rest of the bay, choking the natural tidal flow.
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The San Diego Union Tribune
Irrigation times for SD customers extended
By Mike Lee
Irrigation times for San Diego water customers changed Tuesday.
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High Country News
Presidential candidates are missing the Western issues
By Ed Quillen
What if the Western Republican Leadership Conference sponsored a debate in the West for Republican presidential candidates, with audience members all from the West, and they never got around to talking about Western issues?
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KXO Radio
District gets help with renewable portfolio standards
(IID hires Los Angeles attorney)…General Manager Kevin Kelley says David Nahai will assist the Imperial Irrigation District.
By George Gale
Kelley announced the hiring at Tuesday’s IID Board meeting.
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The Daily Transcript
MCRD installs water recycling system
Living Machine Systems, L3C, a provider of water reuse technology, Wednesday announced that the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego will recycle blackwater for sub-surface irrigation to minimize its water usage.
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North County Times
Riverside County to file 'unfunded mandate' claim
By Dave Downey
Riverside County intends to seek reimbursement from the state for the costs of complying with new water quality requirements established for the Santa Margarita River watershed.
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The San Diego Union Tribune
Marines deploy novel sewage treatment plan
By Mike Lee
As San Diego utility leaders consider ways to turn the city’s sewage and stormwater into a resource, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot is pioneering a type of on-site wastewater recycling system that is gaining traction across the country.
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Long Beach Press Telegram
Water pact fails on every count
If California wants to make real progress on water policy reform, at least three major elements must be included: a balance between users' needs and environmental protection, inclusion of all interested parties, and transparency.
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FishChannel.com
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge on California Delta Smelt
Hypomesus transpacificus continues to receive federal protections
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case that had potential negative implications with regard to the California delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus), a species listed as threatened on the Endangered Species List.
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Lawn
& Landscape Market Leadership
IA Water Conference
The Irrigation Association’s annual event
featured educational sessions and discussions on solving water issues.
By Brian Vinchesi
In late
June, The Irrigation Association hosted its third annual water conference
in Broomfield, Colo.
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The Fresno Bee
Fixing state's water-delivery issues could add jobs
By Mark Grossi
A UC Berkeley economist
says one of the rewards for repairing California's broken water-delivery
system could be 130,000 jobs.
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Mountain
Democrat
Delta Stewardship Council schedule slips
By Roberta Long
In spite
of their best efforts, and Chairman Phil Isenberg’s determination
to meet the legislative mandate to adopt a Delta Plan by Dec. 31, the
Delta Stewardship Council had to face reality at its Oct. 27 meeting.
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Association of California
Water Agencies
USGS Study Describes Climate Change Impacts
for Bay-Delta
By Lisa Lien-Mager
California’s
Bay-Delta system will see changes in habitat, sea level and freshwater
availability over the next century as a result of global climate change,
according to a new assessment of climate warming scenarios by the U.S.
Geological Survey.
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The Kansas City Star
Climate change effect on California delta is detailed in new study
By Mike Taugher
California's water
problems and the ecological pressure on the West Coast's largest estuary
will intensify in a warming world, according to a first-of-its-kind scientific
study.
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USGS
Flash Forward 100 Years: Climate Change Scenarios in California’s
Bay-Delta
By James Cloern and Jessica Robertson
USGS
scientists and academic colleagues investigated how California's interconnected
San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system)
is expected to change from 2010 to 2099 in response to both fast and moderate
climate warming scenarios. Results indicate that this area will feel impacts
of global climate change in the next century with shifts in its biological
communities, rising sea level, and modified water supplies.
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