Stop the San Diego Water Pipeline

The San Diego County Water Authority considered a Regional Conveyance System (RCS) as a way to supply San Diego with water. Fortunately, this nightmare pipe dream is dead for now. 

Such a system would cost more than $6 billion dollars, and would dig, tunnel, and pump water over 100 miles through San Diego state parks, a national forest, several active earthquake fault lines, and some of our region’s most prized wildlands. Our friends at San Diego Coastkeeper led the charge in stopping this project, which we supported. 

The billions of dollars of taxpayer funds would be far better used as water rate assistance for San Diego’s low-income communities, and for pursuing better options for managing water more effectively through wastewater recycling, stormwater capture, and conservation. Fortunately, widespread pushback prompted the SD County Water Authority to abandon the project.