May 7 2014
As the drought in California heads for another dry summer, the city of Santa Barbara, CA is about to restart a long abandoned desalination facility. Up the coast a few miles from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara has enjoyed high quality water from the Santa Ynez Mountains. They have not had to import water like their […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, wet centuries
Apr 29 2014
Memo To: Matt O’Malley, San Diego Coast Keeper and Everett Delano, Esq. From: Milt Burgess RE: California’s Drought Your lawsuit against the State Water Authority says, “The San Diego County Water Authority must do more to address the environmental impacts of its water supply sources.” The bubble that apparently surrounds the offices of the San […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
Mar 27 2014
In Water Shock, I wrote the following in the Afterword: Researching the historical data for this book has deepened my understanding of how temporary are the changes to our ecosystem made by human endeavors, from the Hohokam in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix, Arizona) thousands of years ago to the Central Valley in California […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, SDCWA, water Storage
Mar 6 2014
How is it, during this drought, we are shipping Colorado River water to China? Is it even possible? Yes. Read on. These numbers will be hard to find in any broadcast or print news media. What you will hear, if there is any talk of raising the price of water to growers, is the prices […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: alfalfa, conservation, dry centuries, residential water user, rice, wet centuries
Mar 3 2014
Next to the winners of the Academy Awards is the headline, DROUGHT POSES THREAT TO STATE WILDLIFE in a front page article on 3/3/2014 by Michael Gardner. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/mar/02/drought-threatens-wildlife-ecosystems/. In the local section of the same date, Tom Meyer’s political cartoon makes the point that State Water Project flows for farmers are in conflict with State fisheries. […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: Colorado, conservation, dry centuries, MWD, SDCWA, State Water Project, wet centuries
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