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Caifornia Drought and the Groundwater Replenishment System — Produces Water @ $600.00 Per Acre Foot : Within 3 Years, Imported Water will Cost $800.00 Per Acre Foot = Year’s Supply for 2 Families (Treehugger)

(March 15, 2009, Treehugger)
Visitors to Disneyland likely don’t know that when they sip from Disney water fountains that the great tasting aqua treat was once streaming through a public sewer. Not to worry though. That sewer water is actually substantially cleaner and more carefully filtered than the water consumed in the average American household. Moreover, [...]

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Four California Water Managers — Ken Willis, Randy Van Gelder, Robert DeLoach, Michael Camacho — Speak Their Minds on “Perfect Storm” Drought: Price of Imported Water will Increase 20% in 2009!!! (SanBernardinoSun)

(Feb. 28, 2009, The San Bernardino Sun)
Water is one of California’s most vexing challenges.
Most of the state’s rainfall comes in Northern California and its snowpack is in the Sierra Nevada range. But most of the users are in Southern California and the Central Valley, where agriculture is the main consumer.
There are obstacles at every step [...]

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