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
Jun 22 2014
“Crafting Water Bond For Ballot A Struggle” is the headline in today’s UT San Diego, a six column half page piece by Michael Gardner that has a serious omission. Without getting into the weeds of the plethora of arguments between competing interests, where in this article is any discussion of water pricing? Three indisputable facts […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, residential water user, water rate hike, wet centuries
May 29 2014
New X-Box games, new flat screen TV, another four-wheeler and a bigger trailer to haul the stuff to “The River”. We all know this family who have maxed out their credit cards, are teetering on the brink of not making their mortgage payment, where the lady of the house has her nails done weekly and […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, Reservoir Augmentation, water Storage, wet centuries
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 8 2014
An old adage goes: “Water flows uphill to money”. And it was never truer than now as agri-business lobbies to get the last drop of water out of the ground in the sinking Central Valley to grow thirsty crops sold overseas. “Associated Press 05/06/2014 03:31:25 PM PDT By Garance Burke SAN FRANCISCO — Water has […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, potable, precipitation, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rates, wet centuries
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