Here’s another great blog post, this time by Tom Phlip. Executive Strategist from the Metropolitan Water District.  The Metropolitan Water District have put together an excellent animated film on how the Sacramento Bay Delta, which supplies a large percentage of water used in the state, particularly in Souuthern calfirnia, has transformed through […]

There’s no doubt that the need for more accurate and available water use data is great.  Thanks to the CA Department of Water Resources and the CUWCC for working to produce a standardized way to gather more per use data.  DWR has posted its Methodologies for Urban Per Capita Water Use, a […]

Check out the photos and overview of the substance, H2o, on planet earth provided by NASA. Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it covers 75% of the Earth’s surface. It fills the sky with clouds. Water is practically everywhere […]

Metropolitan’s executive strategist Tom Philp is doing a weekly commentary on the state’s water challenges from a Southern California point of view at the San Francisco Chronicle web site.  Given the great imbalance between water supplies and water use in the southern part of California, this will be a great blog to […]

There is no end to the things you can learn from reading the annual performance report from the CA state water board.  Particularly if you are interested in water rights.  Take a look at the newly issued report. The Water Boards released the second, web-based Annual Performance Report covering Fiscal Year 09-10 […]

I’m always harping on people to know where their water comes from. Just as important, since most of us don’t actually use local water supplies, is to know what watershed you live in and how that watershed is being managed.  Get local wioth your understanding of water by checking out your local […]

Sometimes those working in stormwater forget that it’s management best starts closest to it’s source – managing rainwater.  Right on traget, the SFPUC has developed a stormwater management tool, The Watershed Stewardship Curriculum, to assist schools in their adoption of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) practices. Watershed Stewardship Curriculum http://sfwater.org/mto_main.cfm/MC_ID/14/MSC_ID/361/MTO_ID/565 From 2009 to 2010, […]

Given that a huge percentage of California water supplies are devoted to agriculture (estimated as high as 85%), stewarding that water wisely is imperative.  It’s a complicated arena, so an especially large thanks to the work being done by the California Agricultural Water Stewardship Initiative. Farm Water Toolbox – A Regional Forum […]

Dear Interested Parties, This announcement is to inform interested and affected parties of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) plan to consider adopting the State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2010/2011 Intended Use Plan (IUP) for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Program. The Division of Financial Assistance (DFA) is […]

The Cal Green Building Code, which includes water efficiency standards, will become a required code as of jan 2011. In our effort to centralize water reuse information under one roof, Wholly H2o has information specific to Cal Green as well as other Building Codes, and their water use specifications, https://www.whollyh2o.org/rating-systems.html  Thanks to […]