Jun 17 2015
Whenever public water policy is discussed, the inevitable conclusion is the subject is too complex, has too many disparate stakeholders and defies simple solutions. This is especially true regarding partially recycled water distributed through purple pipe as opposed to recycled water to potable water standards. Usually it is decided both will be utilized. Recycling sewage […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, precipitation, purification, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
Jun 6 2015
Every day the San Diego print and broadcast media report on the historic drought in California. Innovative solutions, other than draconian conservation methods, are missing from the ubiquitous coverage of four years of below average rainfall, nearly non-existent snowpack and dire predictions about the diminishing Colorado River. Judging from all of this it seems all […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Mar 17 2015
The following letter to the editor appeared in the March 2015 issue of PE Magazine, a journal distributed to all of the members of the National Society of Professional Engineers in response to a piece titled “Dealing with Drought”. I was astonished to find no mention of the human cost of the current four-year drought […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0
Nov 19 2014
Does San Diego face a dry future? This was the headline of an article written by Cheryl Clark 12/7/1984 in the San Diego Union Tribune. (See below) Water was taken for granted. Toilets flushed, water flowed from the taps. A personal research project began. The five year drought in the 1980s caused a lot of […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 11 2014
In a prior blog, titled “Water Pricing-A new Paradigm” we discussed how Perth, Australia finances their desalination and potable recycling. California has substantial roadblocks to following Perth’s example of linking the value of property to water. Proposition 13, was further amended by Prop 218 in 1996 by California voters. The latter is also known as […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
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