Aug 10 2014
This blog has previously mentioned the book, “The Failure of Nerve” by Edwin H. Friedman. It is a book all leaders should read. In today’s UT San Diego many column inches are devoted to water issues and the drought. One is “Crunch Time To Rewrite Water Bond, Atkins Warns by Chris Nichols and the other […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, purification, purple pipe, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, wet centuries
Aug 9 2014
“Most Council Members Water Usage Has Risen” is the headline in the UT San Diego article August 9, 2014. While this blog agrees that public officials should “walk the walk” if they are going to do the “talk”, we cannot conserve out way out of this drought. Doing the same thing over and over again, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, Direct, dry centuries, precipitation, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water districts, water rate hike, water rates, wet centuries
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
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