WATER AGENCY VOWS TO CONSERVE.Byline: Kathleen Sweeney Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency has joined other state water suppliers in pledging to conserve water. CLWA CLWA Chip-Level Weibull Analysis CLWA Children living with AIDS (Lancaster, OH) joined the California Urban Water Conservation Council, which is a partnership of agencies and organizations concerned about the water supply and conservation of natural resources conservation of natural resources, the wise use of the earth's resources by humanity. The term conservation came into use in the late 19th cent. and referred to the management, mainly for economic reasons, of such valuable natural resources as timber, fish, , and agreed to implement 14 water conservation practices in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . ``We think it's a very progressive thing for the agency,'' said Don Froelich, president of the CLWA board. ``We don't want water to turn into the same situation as the electric utilities where we are short of the resource.'' The CLWA already implements six of the 14 best management practices, including system water audits, school education and conservation pricing. It also will submit a biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an progress report to the council, which reports to the State Water Resources Control Board. The council is divided into three groups: wholesale and retail water suppliers, public advocacy organizations, and consultants and other interested parties. More information about the California Urban Water Conservation Council and water conservation best management plans is available online at www.clwa.org. SAVING THE WET STUFF These are the requirements the Castaic Lake Water Agency has pledged to meet by joining the California Urban Water Conservation Council. Best Management Practices Requirements 1. Residential water surveys: Indoor and outdoor audits of residential water use and distribution of water-saving devices. 2. Residential plumbing retrofits: Distribution or installation of water- saving devices in pre-1992 residences. 3. System water audits: Unaccounted-for water calculated annually, and distribution system audits as required. 4. Metering with commodity rates: Metering of consumption and billing by volume. 5. Large landscape conservation: Water budgets for large landscape irrigators. 6. High-efficiency clothes washers: Rebates for efficient washing machines (storage) washing machine - An old-style 14-inch hard disk in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". . 7. Public information: Information promoting water conservation. 8. School education: Provision of educational materials and services to schools. 9. Industrial, commercial, and institutional conservation: Programs to increase water use efficiency in ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. sectors. 10. Wholesale agency assistance: Support by wholesalers for conservation programs of retail water suppliers. 11. Conservation pricing: Uniform or increasing block rate structure, volume-related sewer charges, and service cost recovery. 12. Conservation coordinator: Designation of staff coordinator of agency conservation programs. 13. Water waste prohibition: Enforced prohibition of wasteful use of water. 14. Residential ULFT ULFT Ultra Low-Flush Toilet replacement: Programs promoting replacement of high-water-using toilets with ultra-low-flow toilets. CAPTION(S): box Box: Saving the Wet Stuff (see text) SOURCE: California Urban Water Conservation Council |
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