wet years

Mar 19 2014

Water Kilowatts Don’t Care!

Pat Mulroy, the retired Las Vegas water executive, said when asked if water was a basic right, “Sure, if you want some water, take your bucket to Lake Mead and get it.” This blog is not about the philosophy of whether water is a basic human right or not. We can discuss that later. Ms. […]

By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: augmentation, conservation, Direct, Dry years, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, purification, purple pipe, SDCWA, wet years

Mar 17 2014

California’s Unsustainable Central Valley

Sustainable is the buzz word ubiquitous in Green literature. It is defined in the Merriam Webster Dictionary: “as of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged“. In the Great Central Valley of California the water systems and socio-economic model that […]

By Milt Burgess • Blog • 0 • Tags: conservation, Dry years, El Nino, La Nina, MWD, potable, SDCWA, wet years

The Montanan

wet years

Water Kilowatts Don’t Care!

California’s Unsustainable Central Valley