1. Water we doing? Where does your water originate?
Wholly Water!
Water we doing?
Where does your water originate?
How much does it cost?
What happens to it when you finish with it?

2. California’s Pipe Dream
National Geographic
2003

3. What do you know about the twin peripheral pipelines?

4. Lake
Tulare

5. Our vile dam Orville Damn!

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7. Colorado River Tops 2013 Endangered Waterways
By KEN RITTER Associated Press
LAS VEGAS April 17, 2013 (AP)
                
Photos from The Colorado River Runs Dry
A Cocopah Indian surveys what was once the tribe's traditional fishing grounds.
Peter McBride

8. Owens Lake 1913 108 square miles 30’ deep; 2013 Largest U. S
Owens Lake square miles 30’ deep; 2013 Largest U.S. air pollution source!

9. What impact might Global Warming have on San Diego’s water supply?
Less snow
More water “demand”
Carbon dioxide release in moving water
”Floods!”

10. Connection Between
Water and Power
It takes energy to move and purify water. The California Energy Commission notes that “moving water around the state takes up to 40 % of the total electricity supply.” Desalinated sea water is very expensive in $ [2x], environmental damage and energy use!

11. $1 Billion Poseidon Desalinization Plant
SDCWA guaranteed purchase of 50 million gallons per day!
Spring of 2016 dumped 0.5 Billion gallons of desal purified water into the Otay Reservoir requiring retreatment if it was to be put back into our water system!
This water costs twice the amount/gallon of water pumped from 700 miles away because it requires more energy to produce. It inflicts marine ecosystem damage.

12. Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California
• Wholesale water provider Since 1928
• 2 MAF from Colorado River– 650 billion gallons : how about a 1 cent/gallon levee??????
½ annual regional demand
• 26 Member Agencies
• 18 million residents
• 5,200 square miles

13. Our present solution to water rights?

14. Dave Barry
"No matter what challenges we face as a species--no matter what hurdles are placed in our way--somehow we always find a way, even in the darkest hour, to make things worse. It's a miracle, really." You read about the events of one year and you think, “There’s no possible way that human beings can get any stupider than that.” Then you read what we did the next year, and darned if we didn’t pull it off!”

15. Read
“Cadillac Desert” by Marc Reisner

16. SDCWA, water you doing?
Colorado River salinity levels are much higher than supplies from the State Water Project, so water is blended at Lake Skinner to make it potable before it is delivered to San Diego. Good, we don’t get more perchlorates!
California currently takes approximately 5.2 million acre feet (1.7 Quadrillion gallons) of Colorado River water per year, even though its entitlement is only 4.4 maf.
Over 50% thrown on the ground after treated!
Double San Vincente Dam capacity?

17. Sustainability means Never having to say you are SORRY.

18. Think Carefully
And
Drink Carefully,
Your Poseidoned water!

19. What Can be Done?
Use less water and discuss with friends and neighbors:
1 minute Navy showers, if it’s yellow let it mellow, grow only native or adapted plants.
Inform yourself and act.
Call local representatives and water districts
and voice your informed concerns
Learn to live Sustainably and respect “others”.
Conserve the water we get!