Construction crews moved traffic lanes on Harbor Drive approximately 60 feet to the east between the Navy and B Street piers on Monday, as progress continues on the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Phase 1 project.

The city of San Diego filed a lawsuit this week against the Regional Water Quality Control Board, challenging the agency's approval of a plan to clean up a fuel spill underneath Qualcomm Stadium.

Despite continuing conservation efforts, San Diegans should prepare for another increase in water rates in the coming year, Roger Bailey, director of the public utilities department, told the City Council on Tuesday.

In the water rates lawsuit that has pitted the San Diego County Water Authority against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California since 2010, a San Francisco Superior Court judge has given MWD a new deadline.

New, local TV series, “A Growing Passion,” is started a Kickstarter campaign on March 29, to raise $10,000 to finance the filming and production of their second season on KPBS (www.agrowingpassion.com).

Dr. Gregory Frost was a young scientist finishing his research in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco, when he reached a fork in the road: go to Sweden with fellow researchers to further his work with the human hyaluronidase gene family, or head southward to San Diego, where his entrepreneurialism could be nurtured at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

A plan to bolster the local drinking water system with purified wastewater got a green light from a key committee at the San Diego City Council this afternoon, under the urging of a broad coalition of business, environmental and labor groups.

The International Facilities Management Association, San Diego Chapter (IFMA San Diego) is a volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the performance and professional growth of members through networking, education and promoting the practice of facilities management. The integration of sustainability into the facility management process is a natural fit. Facility management professionals have long been concerned with and engaged in the environmental aspects of the facilities they operate, especially from the perspective of energy conservation and high-performance buildings.

Marty Turock was looking for new ways to save energy and cut costs for the Greening San Diego program that he heads at CleanTECH San Diego, when he decided to play the guinea pig and have an energy audit done for his 10-year-old home in Carmel Valley. There wasn’t a lot of potential for upgrades but when he asked the inspector about his two horsepower swimming pool pump that was on for eight hours a day to filter the water, he was told there was scope for improvement if he switched from single speed to a variable speed pump, which would run quieter and lower his energy bill by about 70 percent.

When land-use attorney Ann Moore was sworn in as 2013 chair of the Unified Port of San Diego’s board of port commissioners, she was tasked with conveying a theme for her yearlong post. How would she like the port commissioners, the port’s member cities and its various stakeholders to work together in the coming year?

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairman Greg Cox is expected to propose next week a study looking at a different testing method for local beach water quality.

San Diego County Water Authority sold $299.1 million in refunding debt as the California agency builds the Western Hemisphere's largest water-desalination plant.

The deserts of the Middle East seem to be fertile ground for American water-use technologies, say members of a World Trade Center San Diego mission that spent last week in Saudi Arabia, Doha and Qatar.

He's not sitting on a clear lake fishing in New Hampshire, but the memory of doing so growing up is one of the inspirations to Jon Loveland's career of turning originally undrinkable water into something fresh, clean and useful.

With the closing Monday of a transaction for $734 million in tax-exempt bond financing, construction of the long-awaited seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad is set to begin within the next several days.

Poseidon Resources (Channelside) LP, a subsidiary of Poseidon Water LLC, has closed the $922 million financing and secured all funding needed to build the Carlsbad Desalination Project.

A three-year study by the U.S. Department of the Interior on the Colorado River Basin’s long term supply and demand was released Wednesday, projecting water shortages over the next 50 years.

The Port of San Diego's board of port commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to move forward on negotiations to develop 20 acres of land in National City.

The decision of the San Diego County Water Authority’s board of directors to approve on Thursday a 30-year water purchase agreement between it and Poseidon Resources, is having an effect.

San Diego can now — officially — expect to be drinking desalinated seawater within a few years.