Oct 3 2014
The San Diego region continues to treat, use once and dump over 200 million gallons a day of water into the ocean. Desalination and potable recycling essentially use the same process, but there is no brine left from potable recycling. It is environmentally friendly, yet our water policy makers shy away from even discussing it except in vague […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
Sep 15 2014
“San Diego County has arguably done more than any other county in California to combat drought and to help guarantee a reliable supply of water for this semiarid region well into the future.” Really? This is the lead sentence in the 9/14/2014 editorial “For California’s Future, Yes on Prop. 1” If “Orange” replaced “San Diego” […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage
Sep 13 2014
Jim Madaffer’s op-ed in the 9/13/2014 UT San Diego is a step in the right direction, but fails to point out that the $7 billion dollar water bond has only a miniscule (comparatively) amount for wastewater recycling. The lion’s share of the bond issue to be voted on in November is for additional water storage. […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, potable, precipitation, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike
Sep 11 2014
Not a day goes by that somewhere, somehow the drought is mentioned. It’s even on Caltrans traffic signs. “SAVE WATER” is everywhere. Yet, even the most common-sense politician in San Diego, Dianne Jacob, apparently does not make the connection between how our water is used and the on-going drought. Supervisor Jacob lauds San Diego’s growing […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
Sep 1 2014
In the New Testament of the Bible, Christ turns water into wine, and apparently Deborah Brennan Sullivan is an advocate of doing the same thing. The front page story of the Monday, September 1, 2014 UT San Diego goes into great detail about why growing grapes and making wine is a serious water saving alternative […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project, water districts, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
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