Know Your H2O

The Business of Delivering Water.

February 28th, 2012

Yesterday when I pointed out that delivering water is BIG BUSINESS, I should have been more clear that the old boys club at Metropolitan Water District is not responsible for the proposed delivery of desalinated water from Carlsbad…. more »

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

February 27th, 2012

Image provided courtesy of CBS News, Los Angeles. Delivering water is BIG BUSINESS, folks. One would think that a community’s precious water delivery would be administered by a group of academic-like, gray-haired wise policy makers.  Instead, as this… more »

Do You Know Your H20?

February 15th, 2012

We will be hosting a water policy training on Thursday, March 1st from 7-8pm at 7590 Fay Avenue La Jolla, CA 92037 (5th floor conference room). If you want to understand our position on desalination, water recycling, conservation,… more »

Debunking ‘Toilet to Tap’

February 13th, 2012

Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter activist Belinda Smith addresses the misconceptions about ‘toilet to tap’ and the importance of effective water management in a recent article in the New York Times titled As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides Treated Wastewater… more »

Surfrider San Diego Presents at Southern California Water Conference

January 30th, 2012

Advocating for the prioritization of water supply options from least EMBEDDED ENERGY to the greatest and multi-benefit solutions, Surfrider San Diego was asked to present at this year’s UCLA The Future of Water in Southern California Conference last… more »

Ocean Friendly Gardens Prepares for its Garden Assistance Program Workday on December 3rd!

November 10th, 2011

Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Garden’s program is getting ready to host our Garden Assistance Program (GAP) workday, the big finale of our Fall 2011 series in South Oceanside on December 3rd (weather permitting)! The Ocean Friendly Gardens (OFG) program is part of… more »

The sad truth about desal….

September 21st, 2011

Click here for an article highlighting some of the sad truths behind support for desalination from our Water Boards more »

Can the water needs of communities really be coordinated through the use of smart economics?

September 19th, 2011

Join our Know Your H2O Committee for a Forum on Water Scarcity Pricing with Dr.David Zetland, Senior Water Economist. David Zetland, Senior Water Economist and author of The End of Abundance: Economic Solutions to Water Scarcity will speak… more »

Legal battle over ocean desalination continues…

August 19th, 2011

Surfrider filed appeal yesterday of  San Diego’s Superior Court ruling siding with the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s determination to allow “open ocean” intake to withdraw seawater for an ocean desalination facility on the Carlsbad coast, the largest… more »

IPR San Diego Tour September

Tour San Diego’s Cutting Edge IPR Demo Project.

August 2nd, 2011

What is IPR? Indirect Potable Reuse is wastewater treated to a level so pure, we can drink it. The process mimics what happens during our natural water cycle. They use this pure water in Orange County as part… more »