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
Aug 22 2014
Mother Nature is unpredictable. We may see massive downpours to break the drought, but the latest El Nino forecasts are looking grim. With only a 65% probability of a weak El Nino, it appears there will be little water to fill the reservoirs, and Lake Mead is predicted to fall below the 1075 ft. level, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, dry centuries, La Nina, MWD, purple pipe, rainfall, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
Aug 21 2014
At an 1893 Irrigation Congress in Los Angeles, after listening for several days to those who proclaimed the vast wealth of an irrigated West, [John Wesley Powell] rose to speak, saying: When all of the rivers are used, when all of the creeks in the ravines, when all the brooks, when all the springs are used, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, dry centuries, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, SDCWA, State Water Project, water rate hike, water Storage
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