Apr 9 2014
An engineer in Central Texas sent me an email today. There is little doubt the difference between politicians and engineers is different in Texas. Here is what he had to say: I really enjoyed your book “Water Shock.” You are concerned about water availability in Southern California. We are experiencing significant water issues in Central Texas. […]
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Apr 6 2014
A front page article in the Sunday San Diego UT:”We have a problem that we live in a desert and that has not been assumed as such, said Joaquín Bohigas, an astronomer and member of Red Calidad de Vida, a network of organization for civic groups in Ensenada.” It is not a dream sequence. Ensenadas […]
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Mar 31 2014
Much has been written about how dependent San Diego is on imported water. Eighty percent of SD’s water is imported from Northern California and the Colorado River. This fact gets a “So What” from most San Diego water users, and more importantly from the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) who, in their Master Plan, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, potable, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, water Storage
Mar 29 2014
Fox News Magazine Dateline: September 27, 2080 By William Brown The Worldwide Geo team has returned that has been touring the ghost towns of the region formerly known as the Southwestern US. They spent more than three months documenting the effects of depopulation of this once thriving desert and coastal region. Judy and George Halvorson […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, drought, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, potable, purification, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
Mar 27 2014
In Water Shock, I wrote the following in the Afterword: Researching the historical data for this book has deepened my understanding of how temporary are the changes to our ecosystem made by human endeavors, from the Hohokam in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix, Arizona) thousands of years ago to the Central Valley in California […]
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