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Mar 11 2014

How To Spend $707,000 A Day

“San Diego County Water Authority’s New Website Tool Provides Real-Time Calculation of Metropolitan Water District Overcharges” is the headline in the Business Wire on 3/10/2014 http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20140310006485&div=-1840630293 This is truly a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if MWD and SDCWA can keep the lawyers out of the room long enough to stop spending money on litigation […]

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Mar 10 2014

Getting the Most [Votes] Out of Every Drop!

“Money will flow to Drought Relief”, the headline on the front page of the 3/10/2014 San Diego UT http://www.utsandiego.com/video/play/66924/. At first glance, and for those who read only headlines, or may not read newspapers anymore (a growing trend), the headline is encouraging…but the devil is in the details. The lead sentence tells of North County irrigating their groves with […]

By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: Colorado River, conservation, MWD, SDCWA, State Water Project

Mar 8 2014

The View from 30,000 Feet

A friend of mine once said, “instead of getting down in the weeds of an issue, first go to 30,000 feet to grasp the whole of it”. The subject of the drought and the complexity of Western States water is a prime example. The seven Western States, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and […]

By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: conservation, precipitation, residential water user, reuse

Mar 6 2014

Exporting Colorado River Water to China!

How is it, during this drought, we are shipping Colorado River water to China? Is it even possible? Yes. Read on. These numbers will be hard to find in any broadcast or print news media. What you will hear, if there is any talk of raising the price of water to growers, is the prices […]

By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: alfalfa, conservation, dry centuries, residential water user, rice, wet centuries

Mar 5 2014

Las Vegas Water…Doing More with Less

In a prior blog I briefly mentioned the work done by Pat Mulroy and the Southern Nevada Water District (SNWD). In 1922, Nevada was allotted only 300,000 acre feet compared to California’s 4.4 million acre-feet. Who would have guessed that when the Colorado River Compact was signed, Las Vegas population would explode from 5000 in […]