May 29 2014
New X-Box games, new flat screen TV, another four-wheeler and a bigger trailer to haul the stuff to “The River”. We all know this family who have maxed out their credit cards, are teetering on the brink of not making their mortgage payment, where the lady of the house has her nails done weekly and […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, rainfall, Reservoir Augmentation, water Storage, wet centuries
May 25 2014
Buried deep in the San Diego City Council’s deplorable water history is Resolution R-291210, passed in 1999 that directed the City Manager not to spend any monies on water repurification. The Council apparently took this action for purely political reasons, without regard for the health and safety of the citizens of San Diego, meanwhile wasting […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
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 8 2014
An old adage goes: “Water flows uphill to money”. And it was never truer than now as agri-business lobbies to get the last drop of water out of the ground in the sinking Central Valley to grow thirsty crops sold overseas. “Associated Press 05/06/2014 03:31:25 PM PDT By Garance Burke SAN FRANCISCO — Water has […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, potable, precipitation, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rates, wet centuries
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