Planning for the Future: Gray Water Supply as a Conservation Measure for a Key Water Provider in Douglas County, Colorado

Diminishing water in the Denver Basin aquifers requires Parker Water and Sanitation District plan for the future to ensure availability of supply. Water conservation is one approach to prolonging the life of the aquifers. Homeowner installed gray water systems will help conserve 25 percent of the water needed and reduce the need to pump ground water for irrigation. Non-potable water through gray water systems will reduce the demand on the supplier. Gray water use will prolong a potable supply to Parker for years ahead. For this plan to be effective, Colorado regulations must change to allow gray water use. This goal will be achieved as the mind-set about water conservation shifts and water suppliers and consumers demand modification to policies.

Beyond megaprojects?. Water alternatives for mass tourism in coastal Mediterranean Spain

Water availability in adequate quantities and qualities is a fundamental requirement for tourism. In the Mediterranean, one of the world’s leading tourist destinations, water availability is subject to modest and erratic precipitation figures which may decline with climate change. The tourist industry therefore may have to assure future supplies by either recurring to new technologies such as desalination or increasing efficiency in water use. A third and yet little explored alternative would be to seek for complementary of uses with irrigation, the traditional user in many coastal Mediterranean areas and holder of substantial amounts of water. In this paper we present the example of the Consorcio de Aguas de la Marina Baja to show how Benidorm, in Mediterranean Spain and one of the most important tourist centers of the Mediterranean, obtains part of its water through agreements with farmers by which these trade their water with Benidorm and other towns’ treated wastewater of enough quality to be used for irrigation, and obtain several compensations in return. The advantages and disadvantages of the water trade between farmers and tourist interests in the Benidorm area are discussed and we argue that solutions to the pending water crisis of many coastal Mediterranean tourist areas may not need to rely uniquely on expensive technologies to generate new resources but may attempt other alternatives.

Economic incentives for land use control /

"February 1977."

Improving environmental quality through the use of local ordinances and regulations /

Cover tite: The use of existing and modified land use instruments to achieve environmental quality.

Loading functions for assessment of water pollution from nonpoint sources /

Item 431-I-12

Use of the Black Creek Database to analyze techniques for estimating nonpoint source loadings from small watersheds /

Mode of access: Internet.

Costs and water quality impacts of reducing agricultural nonpoint source pollution : an analysis methodology /

Aug. 1979.

Data base system for State water quality management information system /

Mode of access: Internet.

Designated uses : water quality standards, criteria digest : a compilation of State/Federal criteria.

"July 1980" -- Cover.

The state water plan /

Mode of access: Internet.

Identification and specification of inputs for benefit-cost modeling of pesticide use /

"Grant No. R863247-01-1."

Illinois state water plan : status of implementation /

"January 1990."

Land and water report /

Report year ends June 30.

Lake Michigan water allocation study /

"Project number 1300.013."

State Water Plan Task Force special report on ground-water supply and demand in Illinois /

"ISWS/RI-116/91."