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SoCal Water Wars

A local and reliable source of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting about SoCal water wars

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Post Poseidon: A better blueprint for the future of ocean desalination in California

Future desalination projects should be transparent, environmentally friendly and just-- and needed.

[Corrected COPY] Trump faults MN for H20 attacks - experts blame Iran + a SoCal perspective

Worst of all is the cumulative damage inflicted by his MAGA death cult and the banal response by our media and SoCal water districts: MWD, MWDOC, SDCWA, etc.

Trump faults Minnesota for H20 attacks but experts blame Iran + a SoCal perspective

Worst of all is the cumulative damage inflicted by his MAGA death cult and the banal response by our media and SoCal water districts: MWD, MWDOC, SDCWA, etc.

Water-management bureaucrats who help Trump & MAGA fascists destroy humanity

What kind of world to we want to live in and what will we leave our families? Does your local water board support your vision or is it representing other interests?

Is selling San Diego's expensive desal water outside the county and state viable?

Local water board director challenges the logic and transparency behind the San Diego County Water Authority's plan and says local ratepayers will be overcharged.

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On Juneteenth: The 'other America'. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 speech excerpts

Themes too often forgotten about racism, economic equality and justice. They seem more important now than ever throughout America and the world.

Indigenous water rights bill passes California assembly unanimously

AB 2218 addresses water related inequities caused by state-sanctioned acts of termination, removal, and assimilation of California Native American tribes.

Rebuttal: the 'Water Renaissance Plan' is visionary but doesn't go far enough

The “new vision for a sustainable water future” scores hits on water recycling & stormwater capture but misses on "conservation as a way of life" legislation.

California’s Water Empire: over 100 years of engineering, extraction and avoidance

Over a century of aqueducts, reservoirs, and political gambits has left us dependent on costly water systems built to serve growth—not the climate emergency now unfolding.

'Water Renaissance for California' favors eco-system restoration & sustainable technologies

Delta tunnel left out of 8-point plan by reform coalition to conserve, protect ecosystems, increase equity, fund waste-water recycling and reform Proposition 218.