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We're all paying -- BIG -- to waste water

$8.1 million, just to move a water resource

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 10:40am
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CONSERVATION THRU REUSE BACKGROUNDER

 Offering a vision

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 4:20pm
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The Conservation Chronicles -- No. 2, Irrigation Efficiency -- Neglected Stepchild

Let’s start this one with the BIG NUMBER. To quote the web site of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, “The efficiency of overhead irrigation, such as rotors, and pop-up sprayheads is typically 50 percent and rarely exceeds 70 percent. The efficiency of a well-designed drip irrigation system can reach nearly 100 percent.” This indicates that irrigation efficiency could be as much as DOUBLED by converting to drip. Or, to put it more graphically, the same amount of irrigation would be accomplished using HALF THE WATER! System-wide, that is a BIG number.

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 4:15pm
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The Conservation Chronicles -- No. 1, The BIG Picture

Let’s start with the BIG PICTURE. But to get to it, we are going to look at a little picture, a specific situation.

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 8:50am
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"Greening" the Stormwater Component of Water Management

A caption for this picture could read – with apologies to Jimmy Buffett – they’re ugly and they’re square and they shouldn’t be there. Here’s why.

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 1:51pm
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WTP#4 - Economic Stimulus? Or Boondoggle for the Favored Few?

The Statesman article covering the city council’s approval of funds for work on Water Treatment Plant #4 reported that contractor groups and the Home Builders Association of Greater Austin touted the

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Submitted by David Venhuizen on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 12:07pm
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