Sources of San Diego Water, by Zach R.
San Diego 's water comes from primarily three sources. 10% comes from the yearly rainfall, and the other 90% comes from an aquaduct from Colorado , Lake Havasu , the California Water Project that releases into natural rivers.
Water is treated by one of three treatment plants I San Diego. South San Diego gets water from the Otay Treatment plant, Central San Diego gets water from Alvarado treatment plan in Lake murray , and North County gets water from the Miramar treatment plant. To test water, the Water Department' Water Quality Laoratory uses the latest technology to make sure people get the best water. They are also always testing out the latest technology to ensure the best water.
Water Action Plan
In order to assure adequate water supply San Diego must develop water sources beyond imported Colorado River water. Water must meet health standards. They city will begin more water conservation techniques. SD will encouragesoftener usage, demonstration gardens, and conservation awards. San Diego aims to use a minumum of 70,000 acre feet per year of reclaimed water by 2010.Water reclamation starts soon. City buildings will have meters for water restrictions. By David S.
Supply in 2000, by Liam
The water supply in 2000 mostly came from canals. This was about 72%. Rainful then was about 8%. Conservation was 4%. QSA.surface water is11%. Groundwater was about 2% same with recycled and 1 % groundwater.
by Liam
by Vanessa
As you see I sent up this pie chart to show San Diego 2007's water sources, and most of the water came from canals. We also got 8% rainfall and from conservation we got 7%. So did QSA, and surface water added another 5%. Grounded water gave us another 1%. We recycled 3%, desalintion gave us another 1%. That Added up to a total of 100%. Vanessa, Gr. 7
| Canals | 72% | |
| Rainfall | 8% | |
| Conservation | 4% | |
| QSA | 0% | |
| Surface Water | 11% | |
| Groundwater | 2% | |
| Recycled | 2% | |
| Groundwater desallination | 1% | |
| My chart shows the amount of water that we can get from certain sources and | ||||||
| what scource gives us the most water. By the way the chart and statistics look | ||||||
| the canals give us the most water and the QSA gives us the least. | ||||||
| The chart tells us that the QSA is connected to the cannals which is the highest | ||||||
| water source but the QSA gives us no water at all. | ||||||
| And that the groundwater source is downsized when it goes through | ||||||
| desalination. Also it is shown that there is only 2% of water being recycled as in | ||||||
| there is barely any used water being recycled. Devin | ||||||
Desalination, by Rodric S.
Desalination is the removal of salt or other chemicals from something such as water. There are different kinds of desalination and ways to do it. Desalination is one of the many possible effective means to meet our local water crisis. Being that the ocean is so close to us, desalination would be very convienent. Currently there are plans locally to construct a desalination plant in San Diego County.
There are both positive and negatives to the desalination approach. One of the obvious positive effects is the fact that we would be able to produce and distribute our drinking water on a local level and would not have to rely on an out of state distributor and provider. We would also have a near infinite resource of water, being that the ocean is vast and takes up most of the surface area of the earth. One of the negatives is that the construction of the plant would decimate the surrounding wildlife, and small amounts of fish would be killed due to being sucked up into the plant.