The Cost of New Water Sources for CA - Webcast
A discussion about the costs of new sources of water for Californians as traditional sources have become constrained, including the costs associated with conservation, recycling, and desalination.
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Who: Lester Snow, Executive Director of the Water Foundation and former California Secretary for Natural Resources, will introduce a panel that will include:
- Metropolitan Water District’s Deven Upadhyay, Manager, Water Resource Management Group: Metropolitan is the largest distributor of treated drinking water in the U.S. It engages in every opportunity to save water and to manage the supplies of existing water, including land management and crop rotation programs.
- San Diego Public Utilities Department’s Cathleen Pieroni, Program Manager: Pure Water San Diego will utilize advanced treatment technologies to produce purified water from recycled wastewater and introduce the purified water to a drinking-water reservoir for blending before additional treatment at a drinking water treatment facility. San Diego also is receiving water from the new Poseidon desalination plant.
- San Gabriel Valley Water Company’s Dan Arrighi, Water Resources Manager: San Gabriel Valley Water is one of several water purveyors that operate treatment systems for groundwater clean-up and remediation of contaminants in several USEPA San Gabriel Valley Superfund Operable Units. In addition, it is actively involved in purveying recycled water and support an active water conservation program that includes conservation education.
- California-American Water Company’s Eric Sabolsice, Jr., Operations Director, Coastal Division: Cal-American has dismantled a dam on the Carmel River, is upgrading water conservation programs, operates and takes a portion of the output of a desalination plant, and is in the permitting process for a new desalination plant.