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
May 7 2014
As the drought in California heads for another dry summer, the city of Santa Barbara, CA is about to restart a long abandoned desalination facility. Up the coast a few miles from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara has enjoyed high quality water from the Santa Ynez Mountains. They have not had to import water like their […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, State Water Project, wet centuries
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 8 2014
A friend of mine once said, “instead of getting down in the weeds of an issue, first go to 30,000 feet to grasp the whole of it”. The subject of the drought and the complexity of Western States water is a prime example. The seven Western States, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: conservation, precipitation, residential water user, reuse
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