Column: Officials say yes, but skeptics aren’t so sure the two goals are compatible during a drought.
Thousands of new apartments will be built in Irvine, and this create cognitive dissonance for Stan Jones.
It might seem crazy on its face. But the water czars say those goals are not as incompatible as they appear.First, officials point that California’s population is not growing, but actually declining. These new units won’t, at least theoretically, add people to the Golden State, but rather spread them around to more affordable and efficient digs.
“We’ve always relied on imported drinking water in our region and have invested a lot of resources to reuse and store it locally. SMWD recently achieved its longtime strategic goal to recycle 100% of its wastewater. With the completion of OC’s largest recycled water reservoir, Trampas Canyon, in 2020, we can now store all of our recycled water rather than send some to the ocean.”
Damon Micalizzi, spokesperson for the Municipal Water District of Orange County , said that conservation alone will never be enough. Reservoirs are needed to store what gushes into the sea when we get big, heavy rains, he said. The Delta Conveyance Project would modernize the delivery from north to south. Desalination would provide an entirely new source. More recycling would boost supply. “But you just can’t conserve your way out of the drought,” he said.California ranks 49th out of the 50 states on housing units per capita, and the state is pushing, shoving, cajoling and threatening cities and counties to finally fix that.
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