The longest yard wasn’t the LA Rams miraculous effort at Super Bowl LVI: It’s the distance necessary when a hand goes from being enthusiastically raised in favor of a secure future, paying a little more for healthy, sustainable water supplies, and greener, cleaner energy, then lowered down to a checkbook.
Author Archives: Roger E. Bütow
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Bütow: Water Storage In South Orange County, A Tale Of Two Counties
The highly publicized, deservedly acclaimed storage and treatment successes in central and northern OC are in part a function of the real estate adage: “Location, location, location.” The reality is “Location, storage, location, storage,” and therein lies the challenge here in South Orange County (SOC): We’re below-ground storage “poor.”
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Bütow: Doheny Ocean Desalination Project – A Fiscal Fiasco?
Launched by Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) around 2000, this project now the sole responsibility of South Coast Water District (SCWD), once upon a time seemed destined to provide significant volumes of potable water to augment all of our South Orange County (SOC) utility supply portfolios.
