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 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
May 15 2014
How serious is this drought? It depends on who you ask, but actions speak louder than words. On May 15, 2014, for the first time in the history of the Central Valley Project, releases from Friant Dam have been ordered by the Bureau of Reclamation (BLM) to make up for the loss of water from […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, Reservoir Augmentation, SDCWA, water rate hike, water rates
May 12 2014
If you were a resident of San Diego in 1856, you might have looked skyward and wondered what happened to the clouds that bring rain. That year it rained only five inches between July 1855 and June 1856. Then for the next five years the rainclouds deposited about eight inches a year. But the sky […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, Reservoir Augmentation, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
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