Colorado River water use not price-moderated, despite drought
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REGION San Diego area water prices and regulations don’t relate directly to the growing scarcity of water in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin, from which the region imports about half its supply.
“There is no plan or expectation that the (contingency plan) will be implemented this year,” the Water Authority’s Jeff Stephenson said Monday.
“Generally speaking, price isn’t used as a mechanism to ration water in California, nor to identify its scarcity, because of the system of water rights that we’ve adopted over time,” said Kurt Schwabe, chair of environmental economics and policy at UC Riverside.
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The San Diego Air Pollution Control District the region’s top watchdog agency for industrial air contamination is in the midst of a major overhaul.
On Monday, elected leaders approved five new members to sit on the air district’s newly expanded governing board, which must be established by March. The county Board of Supervisors has served as the agency’s decision-making panel since 1955.
For the record:
1:08 PM, Feb. 19, 2021An earlier version of this story misstated how long the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has served as the county Air Pollution Control District’s governing board. The supervisors have acted as the air district’s board of directors since 1955, according to county documents.