Water nightmare playing out 70 miles away from San Diego
Ensenada is at the end of the line for water from the Colorado River and now there’s not enough of it for the seaside town in Baja California. … One Ensenada resident, Lucero Perez Badillo, told them in July it had been nearly three months since her home had water service – and the water she received that day came from a desalination plant, delivered by truck and dumped into a rooftop storage tank. … Historically, Ensenada relied on the groundwater aquifers. As the population has grown and agriculture sucked up much of that water, those aquifers now account for just 25 percent of the city’s water needs.