Business Excellence Magazine
The Twenty Gallon Challenge
Routine
droughts mean San Diego County is on a continuous hunt for enough water
to serve its nearly three million residents and businesses, Gary Toushek
discovers from deputy general manager Frank Belock.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Wave of swallow deaths sparks mystery
Watersheds being watched as possible toxin source
By: Mike Lee
The
recent deaths of nearly 100 cliff swallows near the public dock at Lower
Otay Lake – plus five deaths reported yesterday at El Capitan Reservoir
– have created a stink and prompted an investigation by the county
veterinarian.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Letters to the Editor: Get water thrifty and receive rebates
Readers
may not be aware of reimbursements for converting high water-use landscapes.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Perception of paradise often cloudy each June
Local visitors expect sun, but most days find it gray
By: Robert Krier
June
is often San Diego's dirty little secret, one for which we apologize.
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Fresno Bee
Westlands to ration water through summer: Unprecedented
move follows dry 'rainy season.'
By: Dennis Pollock and Mark Grossi
After the driest
spring in more than 80 years, Westlands Water District is rationing its
already reduced irrigation supply through the hottest months of the year.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The good, and bad, of conservation
By: Lynette Evans
Mistakes were
made, as politicians are fond of saying. And mistakes will continue to
be made so long as humans, well intentioned as we may be, inhabit the
planet. That includes missteps in our efforts to save the planet.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Tips on capturing rainwater
By: Philip S. Wenz
Until recently, many
cities have required that homeowners connect their roof downspouts to
their municipal storm water sewers to control flooding and to deliver
rainwater - which is polluted with roof dirt and bird feces - to sewage
treatment plants.
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Stockton Record
Clock ticking on levees
Officials begin to assess what structures OK
By: Alex Breitler
STOCKTON - Inspectors
got a good idea of the problems with Stockton's levees Friday when they
encountered a basketball game in progress on the banks of Bear Creek.
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Chico Enterprise Record
North state forum gives glimpse of new water vision
By: Heather Hacking
CHICO -- A new
vision for California's water management is on the horizon — the
"Delta Vision."
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Discover Magazine
From Toilet to Tap
Filtered sewage water may be the key water source of the 21st century.
By: Jennifer Barone
In January,
public officials and residents of Orange County, California, toasted the
culmination of a water supply project more than a decade in the making.
But at these festivities champagne took a backseat to the beverage of
choice as celebrants lifted glasses of recycled sewage water.
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