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DESCRIPTION:"Learning from Australia: Conservation & Desalination"  with Conner Everts, 
 Southern California Watershed Alliance\n\nThursday, Sept 19th, 6:30pm  
 graywater and rainwater demonstrations and 7pm program\nCircle Church, 111 
 Errett Circle\n\nConner Everts will bring news from Australia, where severe 
 drought has inspired innovative conservation efforts and where 6 new 
 desalination plants sit idle.\n\nCentral Coast Greywater Alliance, 
 Ecological Landscaping Association of California, Love's Gardens, and Santa 
 Cruz ProBuild will participate by providing greywater and rain harvesting 
 system demonstrations and technical resources.  Also, ProBuild will offer 
 10% discounts to event attendees who make related product purchases at 
 their Santa Cruz location.  \n\nAccording to Paul Gratz of Santa Cruz Desal 
 Alternatives, the event sponsor, "Mr. Everts's Santa Cruz appearance is 
 especially timely since voters and ratepayers are unlikely to approve the 
 city's expensive and risky desal project. The community now is very 
 interested in how to immediately institute water policies and reliable 
 conservation measures, including recycling, regional water transfers, and 
 incentives for customers to install greywater and rain harvesting 
 systems."\n\nConner Everts is the executive director of the Southern 
 California Watershed Alliance and co-chair of the Desal Response Group. He 
 is chair of Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform (POWER) 
 with its annual water policy conference and on the Board of Water for 
 California, as well as other organizations. Conner was elected to the 
 Casitas Municipal Water District and president of the Ojai Basin Management 
 Ground Water Agency. Mr. Everts was convener of the California Urban Water 
 Conservation Council and on the state task forces on TMDLs, Desalination, 
 and the SWRCB recycled water stakeholder process.  But his most important 
 work is as elder advisor to the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water 
 and with the Southern California Steelhead Coalition helping remove dams on 
 the streams where he caught fish as a youth and hopefully others can in the 
 future. \n\n\nMore: http://desalalternatives.org/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/06/18742801.php
SUMMARY:Learning from Australia: Conservation & Desalination
LOCATION:Circle Church, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/06/18742801.php
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