Are district boundaries shaped by political jurisdictions or by water drainage basins?
Today, by jurisdictions. We were born in ’56 when a group of folks wanted to bring water to Spring Valley and agricultural water to Otay Mesa. Otay doesn’t have any storage, any natural runoff, so then we existed 100 percent on imported water. Today, we do have recycled water, which we produce and buy from the city of San Diego. That provides about 10 percent of our delivered water. What’s the cause of the current shortage? I don’t want to call it a drought so much any more. It’s really how do you get a reliable water supply and how do you solidify what you have in the (Sacramento-San Joaquin) Delta? Long-range, that’s really going to put more emphasis on local supply development. Local supply development was not economically feasible in the ’90s when water from the County Water Authority was a couple hundred dollars an acre-foot. Late next year water from the County Water Authority is going to be almost $1,000 an acre-foot. Over the next two or three years Otay will have an increasing
