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Must Sea Views! Proud Member For reservations call today 714-845-8000 • www.waterfrontbeachresort.hilton.com 21100 Pacific Coast Highway • Huntington Beach, CA • 92648 2 / JUNE 2008 / THE ORANGE COAST VOICE THE ORANGE COAST W A T E R W A T C H VOICE 419 Main St., #209 Huntington Beach, CA No Crap Tap 92648 (714) 656-3607 Recycled sewer water helps solve water shortage & tastes good [email protected] By JOHN EARL in 1,250 damns built in northern OC Voice Editor California and then moved south to Los Angeles, Orange and San Publisher Diego counties. The source of that f you live in Orange County, pat Duane J. Roberts water is snow pack in the Sierra Ne- yourself on the back the next time vada mountain range. South Orange you sit down on the toilet with I County relies on northern snow pack Editor your copy of the OC Voice, because and the Colorado River for 95 per- you’re helping to prevent California’s John Earl cent of its water. Huntington Beach upcoming water crisis. gets two-thirds of its water from lo- Think of it as one way of giving cal groundwater wells supplied by back to nature what you take from Staff Writers the Santa Ana River. it when you water your lawn, hose But snow pack levels in the Sierra Sara Ellis, Lisa Wells down your drive way, fill your large Nevada are down 22 percent below swimming pool, shower for 1 hour Erikka Innes, normal, the result of a 50 year warm- or flush your toilet 10 times a day. It ing trend that brought increased pre- David L. M. Preston may be the one way in which “wast- cipitation which falls as rain instead ing” water helps to ensure your fu- Scot Sink of snow. That means less water for ture water supplies both California and Colorado water- Water problems aren’t unique to sheds. Due to being overtaxed by ag- California. Drought induced by cli- Columnist riculture and urban sprawl, only 0.1 mate change, as well as poor resource percent of the water from the Colo- Vern Nelson management, including inefficient rado River makes it to its mouth, water use by agriculture and residen- which is basically a big mud pit a lot tial homes, linked with population of the time. Sales Consultants growth have created water shortages Water Supply Plans in at least one-third of the world. PHOTO BY MARINKA HORACK John Perkins In March, Gov. Schwarzenegger Although social and economic in- proposed a 20 percent reduction Debi Laird equalities associated with world trade STAGE 3: Each sink, from back to front, represents in per capita water use by 2020. In policies and privatization of water re- developing stages of sewage water treatment. response, two separate bills have sources have made the world’s poor been introduced in the legislature to Interns suffer the most from water shortages, (a group supported by international largest purification facility of its kind encourage conservation. Assembly economic wealth alone can no longer Gema Salas banking and investment interests) in in the world and it will ultimately be Bill 2175, the Water Efficiency and guarantee a secure water supply, not a recent position paper. able to produce 250 million gallons Security Act, increases water use ef- even for the richest nation and most An Arid Land of distilled quality water from sew- ficiency for new developments and prolific over user of natural resources The problem is acute in southern age each day. All things considered, contains global warming reduction The Orange Coast Voice is an on earth, the United States. Arid ar- California, an arid environment that GWR may be California’s single best measures. AB2175 would require independently owned monthly eas of the nation are suffering from depends largely on water shipped hope for avoiding a water catastro- the state to conserve 3 million acre- newspaper serving Huntington years of cyclical drought exacerbated from northern California or the phe. feet of water by 2030. The legisla- by global warming. Even in the wet- Beach, Costa Mesa and Colorado River, resources that are “There’s two things the astronauts tion is supported by conservation ter areas of the east and southeast, Fountain Valley and currently rapidly diminishing, says Ron Wil- can see with the naked eye from the organizations, including the Sierra Americans are experiencing severe delivering 15,000 copies to dermuth, Communications Director space station,” he tells the group, Club, Desal Response Group and water shortages that have led to po- for the Orange County Sanitation “One is the great wall of China and the Environmental Justice Coalition single family residences, local litical and regional conflicts. District (OCSD). the other is the water canals of Cali- for Water. businesses, churches, schools, Big corporate investors as well as It’s a matter of the lifestyle that fornia. We use more energy moving Predicted population increases for libraries, community centers, grass roots environmentalists realize we have chosen by deciding to live in water than other states use for every- the same years targeted in the pro- what’s at stake. “The survival of the mobile home parks and other an arid climate, Wildermuth pointed thing… So we’ve built this metropo- posed bills ad to the need for correc- human race in the next millennium locations. out, during a recent guided tour he lis in an arid region with no water. tive water use measures. By 2020 the will be tied to the successes of man- conducted for local water activists And now we have to find water for state will grow by 15 million people, aging fresh water,” said Aly Shady, of OCSD’s new Groundwater Re- this arid region with no water.” including 7 million in Southern Cali- The goal of the Orange Coast president of the International Com- plenishment System (GRS) located Currently, a lot of the water re- fornia and up to 500,000 in Orange Voice is to give its readers mission on Irrigation and Drainage at its Fountain Valley plant. It’s the ceive by southern California is stored See CHEERS, Page 4 information that can be used to improve the quality of life in their communities and beyond. The Orange Coast Voice is your C.M. Builds it Green local newspaper. Advertising: Sanitation District will build city’s 1st LEED building (714) 656-3607 Press Releases: By LISA WELLS green certification. A green certified [email protected] building cuts in half the damage OC Voice Staff Writer to the environment compared to a News Tips: ast year Costa Mesa proudly standard building. [email protected]. displayed its green colors by At least two more major green Ladopting the Build Green certified projects are underway, ac- Letters to the Editor: Incentive Program and the Sus- cording to Willa Bouwens-Killeen, [email protected] tainable Municipal Green Policy, principle planner for the city. Coast- and now the city’s first sustainable line Community College is currently building will be built by the Costa constructing a green building. They Mesa Sanitation District. The pro- plan to have it qualify for LEED All rights reserved. Any use of gram was adopted as nine month certification. Certification is deter- the contents of this publication pilot program which is scheduled to mined upon inspection at the end of without the written permission of end on June 30, unless reinstated by the construction.