Apr 6 2014
A front page article in the Sunday San Diego UT:”We have a problem that we live in a desert and that has not been assumed as such, said Joaquín Bohigas, an astronomer and member of Red Calidad de Vida, a network of organization for civic groups in Ensenada.” It is not a dream sequence. Ensenadas […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, potable, precipitation, residential water user, State Water Project, water rates, water Storage
Mar 31 2014
Much has been written about how dependent San Diego is on imported water. Eighty percent of SD’s water is imported from Northern California and the Colorado River. This fact gets a “So What” from most San Diego water users, and more importantly from the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) who, in their Master Plan, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, potable, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, water Storage
Mar 29 2014
Fox News Magazine Dateline: September 27, 2080 By William Brown The Worldwide Geo team has returned that has been touring the ghost towns of the region formerly known as the Southwestern US. They spent more than three months documenting the effects of depopulation of this once thriving desert and coastal region. Judy and George Halvorson […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, drought, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, potable, purification, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
Mar 17 2014
Sustainable is the buzz word ubiquitous in Green literature. It is defined in the Merriam Webster Dictionary: “as of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged“. In the Great Central Valley of California the water systems and socio-economic model that […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: conservation, Dry years, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, potable, SDCWA, wet years
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