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[Water_news] 4. DWR'S CALIFORNIA WATER NEWS: WATERQUALITY-10/14/08

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October 14, 2008

 

4. Water Quality -

 

 

New Elsinore Valley treatment plant cleans water, reduces dependency on imports

Riverside Press Entprise – 10/13/08

By AARON BURGIN


Like the US and its quest for foreign oil independence, local water agencies always look for ways to rely less heavily on drinking water imported from other sources.

Officials from the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District expect that a new water-treatment plant will, in addition to reducing arsenic levels in the drinking water, cut the district's dependence on water from sources such as the Colorado River Aqueduct system by 10 to 15 percent, saving ratepayers more than $1.2 million annually.

"It's everyone's goal to rely more on their own supply than to tap other supplies that are truly at a premium right now," Elsinore Valley spokesman Greg Morrison said Monday after a tour of the facility. "And, imported water is expensive."#

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