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Election 2020: Last Chance to Stop Poseidon - Vote Seckel, Patterson, Ereth, Schneider, Elliot, and Beard

Election 2020 Shock: Study Proves Poseidon's Greed is the Need for HB Desal Plant

Mesa Water's Reliability Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds? Looking back

Poseidon Desalination Plan Isn't Popular with New HB City Council: Looking back to 2012

Election 2020: Karl Seckel for Municipal Water District of Orange County

Bad Branding: Mesa Water District's Marketing Scheme Backfires: Looking Back to 2013

Dust-ups Continue over Radioactive Waste Storage at San Onofre

Exclusive: Update for COVID-19 Deaths in Orange County by City Including Skilled Nursing Facilities

Do COVID-19 Deaths in Skilled Nursing Facilities Matter to Orange County Supervisors?

First Public Report on Orange County COVID-19 Deaths by City

HB City Council on COVID-19: We're NOT ALL in this Together

Water Board President's Pro Poseidon Claims Questioned

Election 2020: MWDOC Candidate Stacy Taylor Punted for Mesa Water's $89 Monthly Desal Tax Proposal

Petition: The Orange County Water District Should Livestream its Public Meetings

Ka-Ching! Tardy Orange County Water District Directors Rake the Cash

Defending America from conservation: a flashback in SoCal water history

Surf City commissioner pushed Jewish-Marxist conspiracy theory

Breaking: HB City Councilmember Will Replace Hoskinson Tonight

The Ideological War Behind Poseidon's Proposed Desalination Plant

Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination

Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination:

Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination:

Fake News: OC Register Blows Poseidon's Horn Before State Hearing

When OCWD's Poseidon Lie Officially Started: Looking Back

Poseidon and OCWD: Manufacturing Consent at State Lands Commission Hearing

OCWD Rate Increase:

Comments on the Revised Poseidon Resources - OCWD Term Sheet for Proposed Desalination Plant

Poseidon Desal or Bust: OCWD Wants Ratepayers to Pay More to Get Less

Garbage In + Gospel Out = Poseidon's Desal Price Predictions: Looking Back to 2018

MWDOC Will Study Poseidon Project Alternatives

Climate Change Could Swamp Billion-Dollar Desal Deal

Poseidon Opponents: Delay Term Sheet Pending Committee Investigation

Documents Related to the Proposed Poseidon Huntington Beach Ocean Desalination Plant

OCWD: Poseidon's Role in Hidden Committee Meetings Explained

Water District's Spurious 'Ad Hoc' Committee Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Project

Water District Budget Passed at 'Worst Public Meeting Ever'

OCWD Pressured to Hold Back Rate Increase

OCWD Board Blocks Poseidon Study & Misleads State Commission

Water Board Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Plant But Refuses to Consider Cheaper Alternatives

New OCWD Director's Poseidon Alternative

'No Comment' on Poseidon Vote Says OCWD Director Stephen Sheldon: Looking Back to September 2014

OCWD Director Shills for Poseidon Again: Looking Back to 2014

Cooling Trend - Power Plants Must Change to Protect Marine Life: Looking Back to 2007

Poseidon was Delaying its Own Desal Project in 2008: Looking Back

Residents Fight Poseidon Project: Looking Back to 2006

Will OCWD be Shipwrecked by Poseidon's Mermaids? Looking back to 2015

Poseidon's Reliability Promise - Pay More Don't Get More: Looking Back to 2015

Water Directors Misuse Committees and Show Disdain for Ratepayers

OCWD's Casual Disregard for Law: Looking Back to Jan. 2015

Why Do Some OCWD Board Members Loathe Being Watched? Looking Back to July, 2014

Director Flory is Furious about Secret Meetings: Looking Back to July 2014

Was $290,000 Mesa Water PR Fee Worth It? Looking Back to May 2013

Mesa Water Weeds Out Terrorists and Unwanted Journalists: Looking Back to 2013

Mesa Water: 'Plz Don't Circulate this Story!' Looking Back to 2013

Mesa Water Vanity Leads to Questionable Consulting Fees: Looking Back to 2013

Poseidon Project Opponents Plan Public Campaign

Can MWDOC Find a Reason to Exist? Looking Back to 2013 and Gus Ayer

Ratepayers Picked Up the Tab for Mesa Water's Fiduciary Fumbles: Looking Back to 2013

Mesa Water Censure Effort Fails: Looking Back to 2012

How the Poseidon Project Could Have Been Fully Permitted by Now: Looking Back to 2012

Mesa Water Directors' Plot to Remove Trudy Ohlig-Hall from Office: Looking back to 2012

Does Mesa Water care what you think?: Looking Back to 2012 with Afterthoughts

Alleged Employee Abuse by Mesa Water Director: Looking Back to 2012 with Afterthoughts

Evaporate the Cadiz Project

'Prenuptial Agreement' Stops Investigation of Met Chairman

Interview with Mesa Water General Manager Paul Shoenberger

My Response to Ethics Critique by John Schatz (a.k.a. Superman) of Santa Margarita Water District

Proposed MWDOC Transparency Reforms Meet Resistance

Water Board's Penthouse-Party Crashed by Pent Up Ratepayers

MWDOC Should be Transparent about Poseidon Desal Plant

Closed Water Agency Meeting Violates the Brown Act

MWDOC GM Nixes Secret Poseidon Desal Talks after Brown Act Complaints

Public Officials are Obligated to be Transparent

FPPC Complaint Filed Over MET President's Income Reports

MWDOC Director Proposes Self-Policing after MET Chairman's Failure to Disclose Income

MWD Chairman's $15,000 Oversight

MET Chairman Still Believes He Didn't Have to Report Wife's Income

Revered Water Director Didn't Disclose Wife's Income

Swan Song for OC Desal?

California's Ocean Desal Future in Doubt

SoCal flashback: when ocean desalination started dying in California

Lessons from Australia about Desalination and Water Privatization

Desalination: Focus on affordable solutions

Desalination: Yesterday's solution

Desalination: Unlocking answers from yesterday's solution

Poseidon Trolls with Defactualized Desal Polls

Bogus Desal Poll Promotes Poseidon Project

Poseidon Desal Deal: Govt. may rescue junk bond project

Sucking Up: Power plant must modernize--but what about Poseidon?

Desalinomics: How Taxpayers Created the Desalination Industry

Desal Debacle: What if Poseidon Fails Again?

$1 Billion Desal Bailout?