Published in Environmental Health Perspectives' Journal

It’s been a busy and exciting month for photography.  My latest update is that two of my photographs have been published by Environmental Health Perspectives in their December Journal.  According to their website, Environmental Health Perspectives is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing high-quality research and news of the field.

Back in October I went on a photoshoot with another friend to the OCWD Groundwater Replenishment System facility.  The Orange County Water District is responsible for managing the vast groundwater basin that provides most of northern and central Orange County’s drinking water. As part of our groundwater management, OCWD maintains one of the world’s most advanced managed aquifer recharge systems to replace the water that is pumped from about 400 wells belonging to local water agencies, cities and other groundwater users. The most recent improvement to the District’s recharge system is the completion of the Groundwater Replenishment System in Fountain Valley.  This system now provides purified water sewer water via a 13-mile pipeline that terminates at two recharge basins.  This project, which began purifying water for recharge in January 2008, is a new source of very high-quality, locally-controlled water for year-round recharge.  This is particularly important now that other sources of imported water that have historically been relied upon for recharge, such as the Colorado River and the State Water Project, are becoming increasingly scarce.

Because this facility is so new and modern, and the topics of water use and conservation getting increasingly important, I was contacted by eps regarding the use of my photographs to accompany an upcoming article.  Below is a screenshot from their website’s homepage.  It features one of the two photographs they were interested in (you can see they gave me credit in the upper left-hand corner).  Below that is the cover photo for their article (and although it’s hard to read in this screenshot, credit is shown in the center, below the title).  I’ve attached their pdf-published article which makes for some interesting reading!

If you’re interested in seeing my entire photo collection from the shoot, you can at:  http://www.costamesaphotography.com/Categories/OC-Water-District/