Nov 19 2014
Does San Diego face a dry future? This was the headline of an article written by Cheryl Clark 12/7/1984 in the San Diego Union Tribune. (See below) Water was taken for granted. Toilets flushed, water flowed from the taps. A personal research project began. The five year drought in the 1980s caused a lot of […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, 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, water Storage, wet centuries
Nov 11 2014
In a prior blog, titled “Water Pricing-A new Paradigm” we discussed how Perth, Australia finances their desalination and potable recycling. California has substantial roadblocks to following Perth’s example of linking the value of property to water. Proposition 13, was further amended by Prop 218 in 1996 by California voters. The latter is also known as […]
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, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Oct 22 2014
This blog has raised many questions about current and past actions by San Diego water policy implementers. Recently the Water Policy Coalition produced a presentation that does a good job of outlining the future for water in San Diego. While this blog does not entirely agree with the strategy and goals put forward in the […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, Direct, dry centuries, El Nino, La Nina, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, State Water Project, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Sep 22 2014
Two separate articles in the 9/21/14 UT are remarkable for their casual approach to the on-going drought. The $7.5 Billion water bond is too little, too late. If approved by the voters, none of it will address the current drought. Vickie Yorbas’ well in East Porterville is dry, and no one is helping her. Yes, […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage, wet centuries
Sep 15 2014
“San Diego County has arguably done more than any other county in California to combat drought and to help guarantee a reliable supply of water for this semiarid region well into the future.” Really? This is the lead sentence in the 9/14/2014 editorial “For California’s Future, Yes on Prop. 1” If “Orange” replaced “San Diego” […]
By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, California Aqueduct, Colorado River, conservation, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, precipitation, purification, purple pipe, rainfall, residential water user, water rate hike, water rates, water Storage
The Montanan
About Alumni at the University of Montana