Spring - Summer 2006 California Water Conservation News

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Where Has CALFED Gone?By Tom Gohring, California Bay-Delta Authority

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Where Has CALFED Gone? ....1

Proposition 50 Desalination

Grants ......................................3

UC Davis Energy Efciency

Center Established...................3

Urban Water Management

Plans for 2005 Under

Review ......................................4

Santa Clara Water Districts

Recycling is Saving Water,

Energy and Cleaning Air.........5

AWMC Creates Water

Planning Database...................6

New Urban and Ag Water Use

Efciency Grant Funds ............6

CIMIS Status Update on

Non-Ideal SiteInvestigations...........................7

Recycling Unused Drugs

Helps Water Recycling.............8

California Urban Water

Conservation Council..............9

Demonstration Gardens

Grow with Prop. 50 Grants....10

Panoche Ag Water Grant for

Herndon Avenue Lateral........10

Legislature Mulls Water-Saving

Landscaping

Recommendations ..................11

Mark Your Calendar..............11


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D s d Pgm Dlpm(916) 651-9662Fawzi Karajehw rylg d Dl(916) 651-9669David Toddthl a d ouh(916) 651-7027Simon EchingPgm Dlpm(916) 651-9667Baryohay Davidoffagulul cul supp(916) 651-9666Kent Frame, ciMis(916) 651-7030Water use efciency information is alsolbl fm Dwr d ff:X. Tito Cervantes

Northern District2440 M srd Bluff, ca 96080-2398(530) 529-7389Ed MorrisCentral District3251 s ssm, ca 95816-7017(916) 227-7578David ScruggsSan Joaquin District3374 e. shld auF, ca 93726-6990(559) 230-3322David InouyeSouthern District770 Fm auGldl, ca 91203-1035(818) 543-4600

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By Peter Brostrom

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water use efciency, while reducing water

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Proposition 50 Desalination GrantsSecond Cycle Anticipated to Disburse Another $21.5 Million on New Water Desalination Projects

SeeDESAL on Page 4

By Fawzi Karajeh

UC Davis Energy Efciency Center

Established


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By Jeannine Larabee and Hossein Ashktorab,

Santa Clara Valley Water District

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demand for hot water, including low-ow

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for a year. For scal year 2004-05, the

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recycling programs. And for scal years

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particulates are similarly signicant.

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Santa Clara Water Districts Recycling

Saving Water, Energy and Cleaning Air

It is remarkable

how much energy

you can save

by saving water

through water

conservation and

water recycling

Hossein Ashktorab, Manager, Water Use

Efciency, Santa Clara Valley Water District

SeeSANTA CLARA on Page 7


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By Kathryn Charlton, Agricultural Water

Management Council

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Council has created the rst efcient water

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to advance water management efciency.

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AWMC Creates Water

Planning Database

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its Green Business Certication in 2004,

and having committed to energy-efcient

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received a certicate of recognition at an

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water use energy efciency.

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regions of the state have difculty

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Status Update on Non-Ideal Site Investigations

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water, we can reduce it signicantly

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Recycling Unused Drugs Helps Water

RecyclingBy Fawzi Karajeh


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BMP reports dueIts that time again..time to le your

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[email protected].

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1The total cost of the project feasibility study was

estimated to be $67,051. The State of Californias

share of the cost was estimated at $54,545. The naloverall project cost was $60,722. The project came in

$6,328 under budget, with the nal State cost being

$48,216.

2The District estimated the average avoided cost of

water is $140 per acre-foot. The District must work

on managing the subsurface drainage stream, which

is estimated to cost $300 per acre-foot. It is assumed

that 75% of the deep percolation enters the subsur-

face drainage stream. The combined cost savings

resulting from reduction of applied water is therefore

estimated $365 per acre-foot. At an average water

savings of 0.47 acre-feet per acre per year, the cost

is $172 per acre per year. The annual water savings

occurs on a total of 14,500 acres and is estimated to

be 6,815 acre-feet per year.

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