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News For and About the CA-NV AWWA Community
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Western Municipal Water District Installs New Solar
Energy System. The 916 kW SunPower system at Western
MWD Operations facility in Riverside is expected to save $4.6
million over the next 20 years, helping to maintain Western’s
commitment to renewable energy technologies. Western
financed the system through a power purchase agreement
with the manufacturer. In 2009, SunPower partnered with
Western to deliver a 1MW solar power system at the Western
Riverside County Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Debra Kaye, VP of Global Municipal Technologies at
NeoTech Aqua Solutions. Former CA-NV Chair and AWWA
Vice President Debra Kaye has been named Vice President of
Global Technologies at NeoTech Aqua Solutions. Kaye is the
former GM at the Indio Water Authority. “Debbie’s unique
and diverse experience in water treatment plant operations,
utilities management and global water policy aligns perfectly
with the objectives of NeoTech Aqua Solutions,” says NeoTech
President/CEO Stephen Dunham. “We are excited to have her
spearhead our municipal strategy.”
CA-NV Author Hopes Operators Read His Book. Mike
McGuire, author of the recently published
book, The Chlorine Revolution: Water
Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives
(AWWA, April 2013), says he hopes operators
will read his book.
“What I would like them to take away
is that what they do on a daily basis is
absolutely critical to public health. And if
Mike McGuire
you don’t believe that, read about what was going on in this
country before 1908 and how contaminated drinking water
was killing people by the hundreds of thousands.”
McGuire is former Water Quality Manager and Director of Water
Quality for Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
(MWD), later MWD’s Assistant General Manager and subsequently
founder and principal in McGuire Environmental
Consultants, Inc. His book tells the story of the partnership
between Dr. John L. Leal, a courageous physician, and George
Warren Fuller, “the greatest sanitary engineer of the time” to
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