Jun 1 2014
“When the San Diego Women’s Foundation took a hard look at the most pressing issues of the year, water conservation and quality floated to the top”, was the lead paragraph in a piece by Deborah Sullivan Brennan in today’s UT San Diego (6/1/2014) “Foundation funds water programs”. “Water conservation?” “Quality?” Never mind the $166,000 that […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, purification, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike
May 27 2014
Two billion dollars to fix potholes in San Diego streets, but nothing for water? I looked in vain for any mention of water in the UT San Diego article by David Garrick today (5/27/2014). The water systems in this city are not part of the infrastructure? Who would know? Perhaps a look at the definition […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, SDCWA, State Water Project
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 24 2014
We have all experienced an “A-HA” moment. In cartoons it’s shown as a light bulb in the word bubble above a cartoon character’s head. After more than a decade researching, writing and pondering why the San Diego water policy makers and implementers have failed to address the water issue where eighty-five percent of our water […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purple pipe, SDCWA, State Water Project
May 23 2014
Following is an excerpt from the San Diego County Grand Jurys Report filed May 10, 2014. The entire text of the report, with the same title, can be found at http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/grandjury/reports/2013-2014/PoliticsWaterDontMix. pdf Where is the UT Watchdog? The San Diego UT has not published any of this, and yet the San Diego City Council has […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, drought, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water Storage, wet centuries
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