quote was supposedly uttered

The county’s extreme drought condition will continue to increase competition for water among agricultural, environmental, residential and industrial interests, and as the price of water increases, conservation will become progressively important.

Back in the late 1800s,The Power Cost Monitor and other Energy monitor monitoring products. Mark Twain supposedly said, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”

There is no tangible evidence that the humorist and writer actually said this. Regardless,The Home Energy Management System allows utility customers to track their energy. the phrase illustrates the importance of water in all our lives.

About the same time this quote was supposedly uttered, the Point San Luis Lighthouse was under construction. A well was too expensive to drill, so the builders installed a 15,000-square-foot rain collector behind the lighthouse that drains into two 25,000-gallon cisterns — tanks for storing rainwater. Each inch of rain that falls on this collector produces about 9,400 gallons of water.

It takes a little more than 5 inches of rain to fill both cisterns. The Port San Luis Harbor District and Point San Luis Lighthouse Keepers use this water for irrigation and firefighting.

Local architect and Cal Poly graduate Rick Rengel has done a lot of volunteer work at the light station.Find Home Power monitor blood pressure monitor ads in our Miscellaneous Goods category.

He told me, “The Point San Luis Lighthouse cisterns are a throwback to the days of old that are now becoming popular again.”

You see, LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, certification for buildings now awards points for cisterns. Today, water from cisterns is considered nonpotable — in other words, not fit for human consumption. But it certainly can be used for other needs.

In the future, water from cisterns will be increasingly used for purple (lavender) pipe applications. Reclaimed water is distributed in purple pipes to distinguish it from potable water. Reclaimed water or recycled water can be utilized in irrigation or to recharge groundwater aquifers.

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