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San Diego: Water shortage triggers search for new sources, but some say region not doing enough to diversify supply

Posted by: Maven on March 1, 2010 at 6:43 am

From the North County Times:

“Residents of Riverside and San Diego counties have embraced the call to conserve in the wake of drought and Northern California pumping restrictions, but many are tired of cutting back and wondering if the water supply will become more secure.

Barbara Hortman, who sells real estate and lives on 2 acres in rural North San Diego County, is one of them.

“I live up in Valley Center, where groves from which people make a living have been cut down,” Hortman said. “I have dead grass and dead landscaping because my husband and I have cut back. Things are dying all around us. Why can’t our politicians do something?”

Local water officials say they are doing something.

Officials with agencies that distribute most water in Riverside and San Diego counties say they are developing other sources, with the goal of making the area less dependent on Sierra Nevada snowmelt that flows through the environmentally sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. … “

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March 1, 2010 · Filed Under San Diego

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One Response to “San Diego: Water shortage triggers search for new sources, but some say region not doing enough to diversify supply”

  1. Kevin D. Korenthal on March 1st, 2010 1:54 pm

    Yeah, how about the enviro-kooks that have stood in the way of desalination projects get out of the way and allow San Diego to become aqua independent?

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