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
Aug 28 2014
The old adage, “We don’t miss the water ’till the well goes dry” is happening in California. “Hundreds of rural San Joaquin River Valley residents no longer can get drinking water from their home faucets because California’s extreme drought has dried up their individual wells..” Buried on page A24 of the UT San Diego dated […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, potable, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
Aug 23 2014
Common love language goes something like this: Two people come together, there is a spark and bingo, as marriage vows go, the two become one, but they still have their own identities. So why not duplicate this in the physical world to make water? A water molecule is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, and […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, wet centuries
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