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KPBS Midday EditionThe city utilities department announced Thursday that 343 water customers were overcharged as much as $420 due to meter misreading, possibly answering questions that left residents dumbfounded and city officials searching for solutions in recent weeks. -
City Councilwoman Barbara Bry has asked the city auditor, Eduardo Luna, to examine the public utilities department after getting almost 100 complaints from constituents about abnormally high water bills. -
The West’s biggest and most important rivers and streams predicted to see record-low flows this spring and summer. -
KPBS Midday EditionA new profile of Stewart Resnick in California Sunday Magazine shows he kept his Kern County empire wet in part with an “off-the-books” pipeline. -
KPBS Midday EditionParts of the West are currently experiencing one of the driest and warmest winters on record. Snowpack is far below normal levels in southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California, leaving some to worry about this year’s water supply. -
SANDAG needs more time to consider whether the county’s only freshwater coastal lagoon will remain walled off from the ocean. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia’s largest lake, the Imperial Valley’s Salton Sea, is poised to begin shrinking at an unprecedented speed this year. The retreat is raising concerns about the future of a place that is considered both an ecological treasure and a looming public health disaster. -
KPBS Midday EditionA growing threat to the planet’s oceans may be getting worse because of climate change. -
Friday is the deadline for San Diego residents and business owners to apply for a rebate from the city for removing grass and replacing it with drought-tolerant landscaping. -
San Diego researchers are studying sand berms on a Coronado beach, hoping to learn how ocean waves affect the protective structures.
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