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
Jul 23 2014
This blog has mentioned the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) many times. Just who is this faceless acronym? The San Diego County Taxpayers Association summarizes the organization like this: “There are a number of agencies responsible for providing water to ratepayers in San Diego County. This includes five water districts, three irrigation districts, eight […]
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, water rate hike
Jul 21 2014
There is something fundamentally wrong with the way our society is organized when the safety and health of a city like San Diego is dependent upon an appointed board like the San Diego County Water Authority. They have spent two billion dollars over the past decade to build water storage facilities, when the need is […]
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
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