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San Diego Water: Pissed Away, Pricey and Less-than-Perfect

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For many months now the Big Story about water in California has been about the drought--as in we don’t have enough. On Tuesday, the State Water Resources Control Board voted to extend water restrictions thru October 2016. Here in San Diego, according to Voice of San Diego, we’ve got so much water that the County Water Authority has dumped a half billion gallons of recently desalinated and other treated drinking water into the Lower Otay Reservoir near Chula Vista. In case you haven't looked at you water bill yet, you’re being charged more for doing such a good job of conserving water last year.   [Read more...]

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Doug Porter

Doug Porter was active in the early days of the alternative press in San Diego, contributing to the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego Street Journal. He went on to have a 35-year career in the Hospitality business and decided to go back into raising hell when he retired. He's won awards for 'Daily Reporting and Writing: Opinion/Editorial' from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park.


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