Jul 30 2014
Are the political leaders in the city of Perth, Australia smarter than the political leadership in San Diego? Likely not, but comparing how Perth has managed their water issues compared to San Diego, it appears to be a matter of political will and backbone. The City of Perth, in Western Australia is on the Indian […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, wet centuries
Jul 29 2014
Floyd Kellman writing in the Letters of the 7/27/2014 UT San Diego is right, desalination is a way to reduce the 80% imported water into San Diego, but those comments are falling on deaf ears as San Diego again will delay, for five years at least, potable recycling and/or desalination when the City receives yet […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
Jul 27 2014
A while back this blog talked about the expiration of the USEPA waiver coming up July 31, 2015. The waiver allows San Diego to violate the 1972 Clean Water Act. How? By sending from the Pt. Loma WWTP over two hundred million gallons per day of imported water, treated to drinking water standards, used once, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, 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, wet centuries
Jul 25 2014
Maureen Stapleton, General Manager of the San Diego County Water Authority (and the board of directors) apparently still believe San Diegans can conserve their way out of this drought when she said, “..residents only have to go back to 1991 to see what a real water crisis looked like. In four months, the Metropolitan Water […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, water Storage
Jul 24 2014
The last blog, Water-The Third Rail Part XVIII, discussed the makeup of the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) and its twenty-four water districts represented on the SDCWA board by thirty-six appointees. Now let’s take a look at the water districts. Although there are twenty-four water districts, there are apparently just sixteen managers, whose average […]
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, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
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