ICYMI, Jenna Ramiscal has this great piece on California’s hydrogen fuel paradox: North County Transit District trucks the fuel in from over 100 miles away to fuel its hydrogen-powered buses. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/11/25/n...

Arizona will use taxpayer dollars to pay private companies to build desalination plants in California or Mexico. AZ would trade that investment for more supplies from the Colorado River. www.kawc.org/news/2025-11...

More evidence of San Diego’s lack of public restrooms: A man just threw two planters onto the floor of a local Starbucks after being refused access to the bathroom, which is “for customers only.”

Don't know how to feel about Bill Gates' controversial climate memo? Join me and four top climate scientists at 1:30pm PT today for a live discussion! Details and RSVP here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/live-event...

SDG&E's biggest union is enraged over non-union layoffs and buyouts of represented workers. "Over my dead body would SDG&E layoff or negatively impact one of our represented families,” said Nate Fairman of Local 465. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/11/03/s...

Ratio utility billing victims are everywhere - wrote about this often third-party billing system used to mask extra costs on tenants back in 2023 voiceofsandiego.org/2023/04/26/r...

Politico's Annie Snider has this great piece laying out how the impending fate of the drying Colorado River is the only water war the Trump Administration hasn't blown up. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Councilmember Marni Von Wilpert. She pushed for San Diego to stop paying its water bills to the Water Authority. “They’re not going to turn off our tap,” Von Wilpert said. “We can go to litigation over this. We can’t continue to rubberstamp.” voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/29/m...

Council passes 31% increase in water and wastewater rates over next two years. Citizens who spoke against the move stage promoters outside chambers after vote. @voiceofsandiego

Council passes 31% increase in water and wastewater rates over next two years. Citizens who spoke against the move stage promoters outside chambers after vote. @voiceofsandiego

San Diego City Council passes two-year water rate increase - 29% - with council members Lee, Moreno, Foster and Von Wilpert voting no. @voiceofsandiego

Councilmember Whitburn says he won't support "four years" of water rate increases. That's different than what he said in September. He's asking whether PUD could do a 5 percent increase just for the coming year.

“Our city is at risk of becoming an inhospitable desert only for the wealthy.” - an anti-water rate hike San Diegan to City Council

Another public speaker is worried that Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is buying fluoride from China to “poison” the water system.

This guy’s shirt says “crap in the pipe! Cost increase program. CIP?” He blamed city for cost overruns on Pure Water program, which was estimated at $1,800/AF. And is now upwards of $3,000k/AF.

This guy, Bernie, made his own t-shirt to protest San Diego’s water rate increase that reads: “Unpure Water Project.” San Diego’s Pure Water project is a driver of the city’s large rate increase City Council is considering today.

More parking fee news: San Diego Utilities Department floats charging for parking at city reservoirs (which are used like parks) as a way to generate more revenue while it faces potential huge setbacks should City Council fail to raise rates to pay for its system.

Just gonna leave this little old story about how the Sports Arena/Midway is in a flood zone right here: voiceofsandiego.org/2020/08/19/n... @voiceofsandiego

I'm doing everything I can to find out what the Navy is or isn't launching over the 5 on Saturday. If you know dm me here or on Signal

The largest water seller in the nation, Metropolitan WD of SoCal, gets a new leader: Shivaji Deshmukh from the Inland Empire Utilities Agency. He replaces ousted Adel Hagekhalil. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Will miss @sammyroth.bsky.social ‘s voice at the @latimes.com. He is a legend.

Mayor Todd Gloria’s admin ousts climate and sustainability direction - The firing follows a pattern of weakening San Diego’s climate action activities. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/08/m... @voiceofsandiego

Nick Serrano, chair of @sdcwa/@toddgloria’s deputy, says Metropolitan should pause its Pure Water wastewater recycling project. San Diego is building its own right now. But he says Met should take some of San Diego’s Colorado River supply instead. #politifest2025

San Diego's public power company is offering to subsidize customers who install solar + batteries on their homes. There's a $55 million pot to draw from, all redistributed revenue from the energy bills San Diegan's pay. tinyurl.com/3xeaeybh via @uniontribune

Sweetwater Authority, which already buys very little water from @sdcwa, is looking to get completely off the teat with a groundwater desalination project reports @voiceofsandiego.org @jimhinch voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/01/s...

Hearing a lot of concerns from San Diegans about the high cost of rent, electricity, water and childcare at City Council today. - If that speaks to you, join us for @voiceofsandiego.org Solutions Showdown this Saturday at #Politifest2025 voiceofsandiego.org/event/politi...

Councilman Kent Lee throws shade at Mayor @toddgloria during water rate hike debate: “Time for administration to look to its leadership team and rebuild trust from the public…We need substantive change from the 11th floor and the responsibility for that must start from the top.”

Amid handwringing at San Diego City Hall over next week’s vote to hike water rates, city analysts dropped a harrowing report revealing how easily the department that handles water and wastewater could collapse without them. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/26/s... @voiceofsandiego.org

I’ll be live on @kpbs.org with fellow enviro journos Philip Salata and Tammy Murga live at noon talkin’ Tijuana River sewage crisis blues. Listen in:

San Diego City Coucil's fee fatigue will likely overboil during Tuesday's vote to massively hike 💧+ 🚽 rates. Who will they blame? City staff are trying to protect Pure Water from their ire, pointing fingers at @sdcwa for mounting costs. Let's unpack that. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/24/c...

California passed a bill that would make data centers disclose their water use. 💧 With AI driving a boom in an already dry region, the bill aims to help communities protect water supplies. It now awaits Gov. Newsom’s signature. @ianjames.bsky.social in @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Water Authority has to pay up for $35 million of yet-unmade drinkable ocean water. The longer it weights, the more that water will cost.  voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/22/s... @voiceofsandiego

This is a very cute move by the Pentagon. apnews.com/article/pent...

Environment Report: Information about the Tijuana River sewage crisis is harder to get under Trump's pick to lead the @usibwc. That's frustrating and further obfuscates an already "turbid" issue. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

Nobody will say whether 43 shipping containers of expired COVID-era PPE the county spent millions to store is sitting in a landfill. One non-profit says it was supposed to transport it for reuse in Mexico. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/c... @voiceofsandiego.org

Very intertwined.

San Diego County spent $5.2 million storing 43 shipping containers-worth of PPE from COVID in a private warehouse. Only months before much of it expired did the county act to rehome it. Much of it may now be sitting in a landfill. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/15/c... @voiceofsandiego

Well damn, missed this news - West Nile virus-carrying mosquitos identified in City Heights and Skyline neighborhoods. 20% of ppl infected develop fever. Risks highest for very young and old. www.countynewscenter.com/more-mosquit...

In today’s Morning Report: The sewage- and trash-plagued Tijuana River swelled again yesterday after a water line broke in Tijuana. But none of the new odor sensors the county installed in South Bay were online yesterday. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/10/m...

Drought conditions looks likely in the Southwest as La Niña seasonal swing expected to continue through January.

Dismantling San Diego’s biggest water broker could be what local boundary referees recommend later this year in the face of ever-rising water rates. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/09/b... @voiceofsandiego.org

Tijuana River is flowing again - this time due to a potable water pipeline rupture in Tijuana that's knocked-out water for hundreds of neighborhoods there. But this also means that there's probably sewage headed towards San Diego's South Bay beaches.

Lot lizards may have their lairs removed from Sunset Cliffs bluff tops under the city’s plan to move the park inland as the sea level rises. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

The days of parking at Sunset Cliffs for its namesake views may be over — because sea level rise is eating away at the bluff’s underbelly. How San Diego plans to rescue this beloved surf and view spot. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

This Sir Douglas Mawson quote from @helen-amanda.bsky.social study on the abrupt and unknown ice loss of Antarctica. "We had come to probe its mystery, we had hoped to reduce it to terms of science, but there was always the 'indefinable' which held aloof, yet riveted our souls,"

How San Diego plans to save Sunset Cliffs from sea level rise includes -- brace yourself -- sacrificing those sunset-facing parking lots perched on the bluff tops. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/26/h... @voiceofsandiego.org

So MWD is going to talk about their new GM tomorrow … but in closed session. 🤔

WTH is a compost-trash/landfill-food waste bin, @petco? These are opposing waste types.

But the city also isn’t cracking down on bad composting yet. When I visited the landfill, processing compost was at a standstill because the huge compost grinder was down. It hit a piece of metal someone threw in their green bin.

The City Of San Diego is picking trash out of its new green bin compost waste by hand at the landfill:  voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/20/s... @voiceofsandiego.org