SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s nine city reservoirs have already captured enough rainwater since the beginning of the year to serve all of the city’s 1.4 million water customers for 56 days with no imported water, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
The amount of rain collected this winter and last is so much higher than normal that San Diego is on track to have local water make up a full 25 percent of the city’s water supply this year — more than double the usual 10 percent.
Collectively, the city’s nine reservoirs have 42 percent more water than they did two years ago, on March 28, 2022, said the spokesperson, Arian Collins.
And the National Weather Service is predicting much more rain this weekend.
The 40,000 acre-feet of water — equivalent to 13 billion gallons — captured since Jan. 1 is far more than the usual amount captured. The city usually captures about 23,000 acre-feet of water in an entire year.
