{"id":253319,"date":"2025-09-25T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:01:13","slug":"morning-report-about-those-pure-water-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253319\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: About Those Pure Water Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diegans haven\u2019t had a peek behind the financial curtains of the city\u2019s Pure Water project since 2012. Pure Water is a wastewater treatment project city officials have been pursuing for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now reporter MacKenzie Elmer has the numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, the price tag looks considerably bigger per acre-foot of water than it did back in 2012. On the other, Pure Water may be able to produce water at a slightly cheaper rate than the San Diego County Water Authority, which has been coming under fire from city leaders for its high costs and proposed rate increases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, city staff estimated Pure Water would be able to produce water at $1,800 an acre-foot. Now they say it will cost $3,527. Most of that increase comes from inflation, city staff say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the full picture, Pure Water is winning the water cost contest by a hair here,\u201d Elmer writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2025\/09\/24\/city-staff-deflect-blame-away-from-pure-water-before-san-diegos-big-water-rate-vote\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Officer Robot Responding. Chula Vista Embraces AI Policing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chula-Vista-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-688810\"  \/>A Chula Vista Police vehicle drives down Fourth Avenue. \/ File photo by Adriana Heldiz<\/p>\n<p>The Chula Vista City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to spend $1 million on a suite of AI policing tools that will enable police officers to generate instantaneous police reports while they\u2019re still at crime scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The city will become the first in San Diego County to use AI in everyday police work.<\/p>\n<p>Chula Vista\u2019s new AI tools will be embedded in officers\u2019 body-worn cameras, where they will produce real-time transcripts of police encounters and generate police reports at the touch of a button.<\/p>\n<p>Chula Vista Police Chief Roxana Kennedy said the AI tools are \u201cgoing to be a huge time-saver for our officers, allowing them to be out in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But civil liberties advocates say the increasing use of AI in policing raises concerns about accuracy and bias.<\/p>\n<p>One district attorney, in Seattle, refuses to accept AI-generated police reports after finding that AI reports included wildly inaccurate information, such as references to officers who weren\u2019t even at crime scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said she\u2019s \u201cexcited\u201d about her department\u2019s new AI tools. \u201cEveryone is afraid of AI,\u201d she said. \u201cAI is only as good as the hands that use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2025\/09\/24\/chula-vista-becomes-first-in-county-to-embrace-ai-in-policing\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>North County Report: Escondido Council Isn\u2019t a Fan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/untitled-05190-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Escondido on Jan. 4, 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-727159\"  \/>Escondido on Jan. 4, 2024. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Escondido\u2019s Republican majority city councilmembers voted to oppose the state\u2019s redistricting measure, Proposition 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why?<strong> <\/strong>Our Tigist Layne writes that councilmembers don\u2019t like the new maps and are worried the change could cost Escondido federal dollars. Democratic Rep. Scott Peters has also been a good representative for the city, \u201cironically\u201d said Mayor Dane White.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Escondido is split between the 48th and 50th Congressional Districts. If voters approve Proposition 50 in November, portions of the districts would change as well as voter demographics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Layne writes that residents were not happy the Council was taking a position on the measure. She also has an update on a development in Del Mar that can\u2019t seem to move forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2025\/09\/24\/north-county-report-escondido-council-opposes-states-redistricting-measure\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the North County Report here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Other News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Morning Report was written by Will Huntsberry and Jim Hinch. It was edited by Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diegans haven\u2019t had a peek behind the financial curtains of the city\u2019s Pure Water project since 2012.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,9081,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-253319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-morning-report","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115264362146814654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}