A bill requiring a countywide vote before individual water districts can detach from an agency passed the Assembly on Tuesday, but it won't prevent residents of Fallbrook and Rainbow from voting on Nov. 7.
The San Diego County Water Authority filed suit Monday to stop the rural Fallbrook and Rainbow water districts from leaving the county system, citing environmental harm under the California Environmental Quality Act.
The Fallbrook and Rainbow water districts have pushed back on an Assembly bill that would require a countywide public vote to approve their exit the San Diego County Water Authority, accusing the city of San Diego of attempting to increase its power.
Croucher
is chair of the Water Authority’s Board of Directors, and lives in Rancho San Diego.
Increasingly ominous signs suggest that we are entering another multiyear drought in California. The State Water Project recently reduced projected water deliveries for 2021 from 10 percent of requested supplies to 5 percent, and on April 21, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a regional drought emergency in the Russian River watershed in Northern California.
But it’s a different story in San Diego County.
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