Even in San Diego, it’s typical to get some rain in the winter. Except this year, the San Diego County Water Authority said it’s the third driest start to the rainy season in 150 years. “Typically, we should have about three to four inches of precipitation around the county, and we’re at around less than a quarter of an inch,” Senior Water Resource Specialist Efren Lopez said. This doesn’t mean we’re in trouble. The Water Authority said we have plenty of water in our reservoirs. The Olivenhain Dam and Reservoir in Escondido is at full capacity. It stores emergency water and water imported from the Colorado River, plus it collects rain. … The SD Water Authority said the San Diego region has 21 reservoirs with a total of about 719,000 acre-feet of storage.

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