OC Wise Blog
February 27, 2017
OC WISE Chairman Dr. Allan Bernstein addresses the importance of local reliability and water independence for Orange County when it comes to our water supply infrastructure.
CLICK HERE to comment on this story on the Orange County Register website, or read the article b...
October 26, 2016
Justin Fox's article arguing that the costs of desalinated water in California are too expensive compared to conservation and buying water from the Metropolitan Water District ignores several pressing realities that the 22 million people living in Southern California h...
September 21, 2016
3 out of 4 Huntington Beach Voters Support Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project
OC WISE, a diverse, non-partisan coalition that supports the development of all forms of new, local drought-proof water for Orange County, commissioned a survey of Huntington Beach...
August 2, 2016
A scientific study has determined that "Seafloor Infiltration Gallery (SIG) intakes have not been demonstrated to be effective at minimizing intake and mortality of marine life.”, and 14 independent marine biologists who reviewed the Report signed in agreement with thi...
July 15, 2016
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is a proud member of OCWISE and penned this powerful article in the OC Register today about the importance of desalination now and in the future. On July 15, LULAC authored the following Op-Ed in the Orange County Re...
March 23, 2016
The Irvine Ranch Water District's opposition to Poseidon's Huntington Beach desalination plant is troubling in that it ignores the facts: Orange County is 50% dependent on imported water from the Sierra Snowpack (at a 5
00 year low) and the Colorado River (at its lowes...
September 16, 2015
Photos from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory show a portion of the Sierra snowpack as it forms and melts between March and May 2014. Scientists say peak snowpack could be as much as 30 percent reduced by 2040. Image via Climate Resolve.
KPCC 89.3 FM has been hosting a...
August 15, 2015
OC Wise has added a new page to our website - CONSERVATION. Talk of the historic California drought is everywhere and we thought prodiving a page with all the best info in one section would be helpful.
As new tips and alerts become available we'll be sure to post them...
July 15, 2015
The Metropolitan Water District unveiled its summer 2015 multi-media water-savings advertising and outreach campaign on the same day the agency officially began restricting wholesale deliveries to help save water and stretch available supplies in the fourth year of st...