May 25 2014
Buried deep in the San Diego City Council’s deplorable water history is Resolution R-291210, passed in 1999 that directed the City Manager not to spend any monies on water repurification. The Council apparently took this action for purely political reasons, without regard for the health and safety of the citizens of San Diego, meanwhile wasting […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
May 24 2014
We have all experienced an “A-HA” moment. In cartoons it’s shown as a light bulb in the word bubble above a cartoon character’s head. After more than a decade researching, writing and pondering why the San Diego water policy makers and implementers have failed to address the water issue where eighty-five percent of our water […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project
May 23 2014
Following is an excerpt from the San Diego County Grand Jurys Report filed May 10, 2014. The entire text of the report, with the same title, can be found at http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/grandjury/reports/2013-2014/PoliticsWaterDontMix. pdf Where is the UT Watchdog? The San Diego UT has not published any of this, and yet the San Diego City Council has […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, drought, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
May 22 2014
The San Diego Metro Business Report for May 21, 2014 article says it all. I can’t add to it, so I have quoted the article in its entirety. Why does it take the actions of a grand jury to move the San Diego water policy makers? And why was this not front page news in […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, wet centuries
May 17 2014
Ahhhh! The high Sierras where the water is sweet, clear and cold. Open a faucet in Truckee, California to enjoy a refreshing glass of that marvelous refreshing liquid, direct from the melting snow of the surrounding mountains. Wrong! Well, partially wrong. Near the Truckee Airport is a facility called the Tahoe-Truckee Sanitary District Water Reclamation […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike
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