Aug 9 2014
“Most Council Members Water Usage Has Risen” is the headline in the UT San Diego article August 9, 2014. While this blog agrees that public officials should “walk the walk” if they are going to do the “talk”, we cannot conserve out way out of this drought. Doing the same thing over and over again, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, Direct, dry centuries, precipitation, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water districts, water rate hike, water rates, wet centuries
Jul 30 2014
Are the political leaders in the city of Perth, Australia smarter than the political leadership in San Diego? Likely not, but comparing how Perth has managed their water issues compared to San Diego, it appears to be a matter of political will and backbone. The City of Perth, in Western Australia is on the Indian […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, wet centuries
Jul 27 2014
A while back this blog talked about the expiration of the USEPA waiver coming up July 31, 2015. The waiver allows San Diego to violate the 1972 Clean Water Act. How? By sending from the Pt. Loma WWTP over two hundred million gallons per day of imported water, treated to drinking water standards, used once, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, 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, wet centuries
Jul 21 2014
There is something fundamentally wrong with the way our society is organized when the safety and health of a city like San Diego is dependent upon an appointed board like the San Diego County Water Authority. They have spent two billion dollars over the past decade to build water storage facilities, when the need is […]
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
Jul 11 2014
In the July 9, 2014 San Diego Union Tribune on the front page is a story about the deepening drought. In the Business section is an announcement of a new 332 room hotel. No problem, since we have limitless water supplies, right? Wrong! This new hotel will hook onto the existing system of imported water […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, drought, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage
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