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Wetlands
City Councilman Kevin Faulconer and Kevin Farrer, a city water detective, survey the irrigation system during a water audit at Faulconer's Point Loma home Thursday. Read more here. Photo: Rob Davis
The new border fence's impacts in Border Field State Park and another federal reserve further east raise questions about the sincerity of the government's stated commitment to protect the environment.
City officials' latest argument against a new water rate structure is that it's legally suspect. Like others before it, the most recent reason is questionable.
VOSD Special Reports
The arid San Diego region is struggling to come to terms with a diminished water supply. Ideas abound about how to do so: implement mandatory water conservation, build a desalination plant, recycle sewage into drinking water -- but finding agreeance about which ideas to implement is slightly more difficult.
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Most of the city's biggest users have saved water since the conservation call began two years ago. But not everyone has cut water use.
The price of water has spiked in the last three years, a trend that shows no sign of abating as water suppliers turn to ratepayers to finance projects to increase supplies, storage and reliability.
For Discussion
Homeowners are receiving their notices to cut their water usage or face the penalties; while the county continues to build and build.
For Discussion
71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water. You would think politicians would have been ruining it sooner than this.
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What the city's water cops have been doing. Nov. 18 -- 3:33 pm
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As gray whales adapt to the Arctic's changing climate, the effects are felt in San Diego and in a remote fishing village on the shores of a lagoon in Baja California Sur.
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With the threat of water shortages looming, San Diego officials have called for reducing water use. But they haven't always done so themselves.
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The sea will rise, but the water supply will shrink and San Diego will feel the effects of global warming.
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