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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 29 > Tapping into local sources: California utility reverts to the long-ago and not-so-far-away

Tapping into local sources: California utility reverts to the long-ago and not-so-far-away

Agency in the Inland Empire bucks a century-old tradition there by using local water sources to meet 70 percent of local demand - and its innovative programs, some say, could be replicated elsewhere

By Bettina Boxall / The Bulletin
July 29, 2009

LOS ANGELES —

Thick clouds veiled the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains. Not far away, just south of East Riverside Drive in Ontario, water gushed into an earthen basin the size of 10 football fields. It had washed up there from the neighborhood’s rain-filled gutters. Most....

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