Know Your H2O
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Business of Delivering Water.

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Yesterday when I pointed out that delivering water is BIG BUSINESS , I should have been more clear that the old boys club at Metropolitan Wa...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

MWD Directors Eating Steak & Drinking Wine is NOTHING ($1.5 mil) Compared to $780 Million Added to Water Bills.

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Image provided courtesy of CBS News, Los Angeles. Delivering water is BIG BUSINESS, folks. One would think that a community’s precious w...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Join us when we tour San Diego’s cutting-edge new IPR Demonstration Project.

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What is the IPR?   Indirect Potable Reuse is wastewater treated to a level so pure, we can drink it.   The process mimics what happens ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Sydney finds that Desal is just too expensive!!

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Let's learn from Sydney's mistake, and not build a desal plant that is just too expensive!

Ocean Friendly Gardens Lawn Patrol this Sunday (the 22nd) in Encinitas!!

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  Join us this Sunday the 22nd at 10am at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas for our next Lawn Patrol!! We will visit our 3rd Street GAP installat...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Know Your H2O has Moved!

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The Surfrider Foundation has consolidated all of our issue-based blogs into one Coastal Blog. Come check it out at www.surfrider.org/coastal...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Moving Toward Water Self-Sufficiency

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Barry Nelson of NRDC just wrote a great article highlighting efforts by Santa Monica, Long Beach, San Diego and a couple of water districts...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Sewage to Drinking Water in USA Today

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Yesterday USA Today carried a fairly lengthy article discussing the world-wide pressures on fresh water supplies and the response in several...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sherri Lightner's Proposed Water Policy Statement: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.

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In San Diego, we have major water issues.  After all, we live in a desert, and water resources are precious.  Yesterday NPR reported on loc...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Putting Green to Work: Economic recovery investments for clean and reliable water

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Putting Green to Work Green Infrastructure On The Rise ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Virtual H2O

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Alliance Webcast: NYC & LA on Green Infrastructure Clean Water America Alliance President Ben Grumbles will host a free webcast f...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Urban developers must demonstrate there is an adequate, sustainable water supply.

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What a great day for Santa Cruz, and the great state of California!  Finally, a community that understands urban planning must include con...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Wastewater is a Terrible Thing to........Waste

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This article in Scientific American points out the considerable energy potential in the "biosolids" content of wastewater. Methan...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Greywater Report looks at wastewater potential

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About 50% of the water used inside U.S. homes can be reused to irrigate landscapes and flush toilets, according to a greywater report releas...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Treat recycled water to drinking standards already!

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This editorial is good - it advocates for water to be re-used over and over again, which is key.  However, at Surfrider, while we think it...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

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As you know, the Earth is a watery place. But just how much water exists on, in, and above our planet? The picture above shows the size of a...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Greywater scores high marks

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After experimenting with solar panels, gray-water systems and chickens for two years, a budget-minded consumer takes stock of what worked ...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Arctic Report Card

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According to current research , return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

New York Times: Lake Mead Hits Record Low

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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words and the photo from a recent New York Times blog article says everything about our water crisis...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Rain Barrels Work!

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For a year, San Diego city officials collected storm water in 24 rain barrels in eight sites across the city to analyze their effectiveness ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

San Diego Edges Closer to a Dependable Local Water Supply

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Yesterday the San Diego Union Tribune ran a feature Future wellspring? - New source of drinking water hinges on pilot project and City Counc...
Monday, October 4, 2010

New York City Green Infrastructure Plan

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NYC's New Green Infrastructure Plan Submitted by Richard Jarman on Thu, 2010-09-30 10:3 4. In a boost to the City's harbor water qua...

Global Water Crisis

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A study in Nature reports that nearly 80 percent of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply isn’t secure. And...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Fact Check: The Real Price of Purified Sewage

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First KUSI's John Coleman calls global warming 'a scam' , now KUSI's Bob Kittle claims "That water (from purified sewag...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

California's Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy, and Money

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A new analysis from the Pacific Institute recommends specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water quickly and at ...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Water Recycling in San Francisco

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Today, San Francisco's water utility will unveil a proposal for the city's first large-scale water recycling project, an arc-shape...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

LA officials use green infrastructure to fight stormwater pollution

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Southern California Public Radio has continued its series of reports regarding the use of green infrastructure to address the problem of sto...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Green infrastructure could cut stormwater pollution in Ventura County

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State regulators are putting in place new rules to capture much of stormwater and dry season urban runoff before it pollutes coastal waters....
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

County offers Half Price Rain Barrels!

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Finally rainwater catchment is catching on in San Diego! San Diego County is offering HALF-PRICE RAIN BARRELS for County Unincorporated Resi...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Venturans face higher water fees

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Venturans face higher water fees despite best conservation efforts "Despite laudable water conservation efforts, Ventura residents and ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

What is your Landscape Water Use?

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D id you know that...? ...a 1,000 square foot lawn in San Diego (that's about a 50'x20' area) uses about 25,ooo gallons of wat...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Huge Win for IPR!

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The IPR demo project is underway; which is a huge step in the right direction for San Diego's future water supply. Please check out this...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Water supply in Dublin area on knife-edge | Irish Examiner

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There's an old joke that goes, " You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer." The joke is funny to anyon...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

San Diego NEEDS to Know Our H2O!

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We wrote an Op Ed piece calling for water management reform down here in San Diego today .  Our local paper, the Union-Tribune ran it this ...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act

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The Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act ( S. 3561 ) was just introduced into the Senate by Tom Udall (N.M.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I...
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