지난 주, 캘리포니아 도심 용수구역(MWD)의 이사회가 물 재사용과 지하수 발견, 담수화된 해수 공급을 발전시키고 생산하기 위해 물 협회에 대한 재정적인 인센티브를 늘렸다. 이는 주 남부에서 더 적극적으로 지역의 수자원을 개발하려는 노력의 일환이다.

이사회는 MWD의 지역 자원 프로그램에 일련의 세분을 승인했다. 이 프로그램은 서비스 지역 전역에서 물 재활용과 지하수 발견 노력을 위해 경제적으로 인센티브를 수여한다.

 

 

 

This week, the board of directors at California's Metropolitan Water District (MWD) increased the financial incentive for water agencies to develop and produce recycled water, recovered groundwater and desalinated seawater supplies, in an effort to become more aggressive in developing local water resources throughout the southern part of the state.

 

The board approved a series of refinements to MWD's Local Resources Program, which provides economic incentives for recycling and groundwater recovery efforts throughout its service area, including increasing the maximum incentive to $340 per acre-foot from $250 per acre-foot for water produced. The program aims to reduce the region's reliance on Metropolitan's imported deliveries from Northern California and the Colorado River and help improve the reliability of Southern California's future supplies.

 

"Ongoing and new efforts to locally produce these resources and lower water demands plays a fundamental role in our long-term water plan. However, the costs to develop and maintain these supplies are a significant hurdle to initiating new projects," said Board Chairman Randy Record. "The increased incentive will go a long way toward making these local investments more cost-effective and sustainable throughout our six-county service area."

 

Over the years, MWD has provided about $490 million in incentives to develop more than 2 million acre-feet of recycled water and 720,000 acre-feet of recovered groundwater supplies that otherwise would not meet drinking water quality standards. (An acre-foot of water is nearly 326,000 gallons, about the amount used by two typical Southland households in and around the home in a year.) Of the 99 projects under the program, 85 are in operation. Today, more than half of the recycled and recovered supplies produced in the Southland have been developed through MWD's Local Resources Program.

 

"We recognize that more can be done to expand available local supplies for the region and become even more drought-ready," said Debra C. Man, MWD's COO and assistant general manager. "Since 2011, we've been working with our member public agencies to identify what actions can be taken to stimulate additional local resource projects and increase future supply reliability. These revisions to the regional program will make local projects more viable and help the region meet the statewide goal of reducing residential per-capita water use 20 percent by the year 2020."

 

The inclusion of seawater desalination projects under MWD's Local Resources Program replaces a separate desalination program established by the district in 2001. Among the other refinements approved by the board is the addition of reimbursable services to the program. Under this component, Metropolitan would offer a variety of technical and financial services to accelerate development of local projects.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 10월 16일]