Jul 18 2014
Let’s face it, the SDCWA made a $416 million bet four years ago with our money and lost. No matter how the San Vicente dam raising is spun, the article admits there is no more water behind the dam now than there was before it was raised, “and it will take several years” to accomplish […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, purification, rainfall, residential water user, water districts, water rate hike, wet centuries
Jul 11 2014
In the July 9, 2014 San Diego Union Tribune on the front page is a story about the deepening drought. In the Business section is an announcement of a new 332 room hotel. No problem, since we have limitless water supplies, right? Wrong! This new hotel will hook onto the existing system of imported water […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, drought, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage
Jul 9 2014
Lake Mead is at its lowest level since 1937. That’s when it was filling for the first time. As the drought deepens with no end in sight, San Diego relies on Lake Mead (the Colorado River) for sixty percent of its imported water. Does this bother anyone at City Hall or the San Diego County […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, State Water Project, wet centuries
Jul 4 2014
Is water a basic human right? There are literally thousands of books and papers written attempting to answer this question. This five hundred or so word blog cannot possibly be a silver bullet to provide an answer for the fact that thousands of people die every day, seven days a week, all year-long from lack […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
Jul 3 2014
When confronted with a page of water numbers and stats, unless you are an engineer or math major, the eye takes it all in and goes immediately to the glaze setting. Especially if there is no graphic break to the numbers up. This blog has tried to steer away from such a mind-numbing experience, but […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
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