Jun 6 2015
Every day the San Diego print and broadcast media report on the historic drought in California. Innovative solutions, other than draconian conservation methods, are missing from the ubiquitous coverage of four years of below average rainfall, nearly non-existent snowpack and dire predictions about the diminishing Colorado River. Judging from all of this it seems all […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 19 2014
Does San Diego face a dry future? This was the headline of an article written by Cheryl Clark 12/7/1984 in the San Diego Union Tribune. (See below) Water was taken for granted. Toilets flushed, water flowed from the taps. A personal research project began. The five year drought in the 1980s caused a lot of […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 11 2014
In a prior blog, titled “Water Pricing-A new Paradigm” we discussed how Perth, Australia finances their desalination and potable recycling. California has substantial roadblocks to following Perth’s example of linking the value of property to water. Proposition 13, was further amended by Prop 218 in 1996 by California voters. The latter is also known as […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 6 2014
Deborah Sullivan Brennan’s report on water use is another winning journalist article in the UT San Diego 11/6/2014. The next step? How to get the message to the high users. Not complicated. Follow the money. The water rates are tiered somewhat now, but they need revision. If those in Rancho Santa Fe and other high […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 3 2014
In “My Fair Lady”, the professor, Rex Harrison, finally says to Eliza Doolittle, “You’ve got it!” after many hours of attempting to have her say, “The rain falls mainly on the plain” without a Cockney accent. That simple statement, “You’ve got it” has become an icon of language in the American lexicon, and also the […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage, wet centuries
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