I don’t understand why california doesn’t build them by the dozen.
Because the endangered sand gopher wouldn’t like it.
California should, indeed, have built them by the dozen twenty years ago, but there are environmental laws that are hurdles. I am not anti-environment, but am opposed to STUPID environmental laws.
Think of all the plants and animals DYING OFF because of the drought. I shudder for the Redwoods, and the Sierra Club should too.
1. Because 25 jellyfish a year are killed by this process. 2. Because they would have to quit whining about the Global Warm caused drought.
Because the federal government has been blocking them and Texas since the 1980s.
I take it that you are new to watching this technology.
Because to the demented liberals, gaia worshippers and moonbeam, it makes more sense to build a bullet train to nowhere anybody wants to go.
Why not do a little research instead of baying at the moon?
It's because Israel is run by grown-ups, while California is run by corrupt children. Just imagine if Jerry Brown were prime minister of Israel. There'd be a half-finished bullet train running from the Golan Heights to the Sinai Desert. It would be over-budget by a factor of three.
And there would be no water.
Santa Barbara built a desalination plant in 1991, then the rains hit, and they mothballed it in 1992, now they are reopening it and Carlsbad is building the largest desalination plant in the Western hemisphere.
In 2011 the United States, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain was among the top 4 markets for desalinated water, it isn’t like we don’t know about it, or won’t incorporate it as the market dictates.
“Despite these hurdles, however, the United States ranks fourth among markets for desalinated water behind Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain, according to an International Desalination Association presentation from 2011.”
http://www.bna.com/us-desalination-industry-n17179876105/
Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant
The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination facility is a drought-proof, alternative water supply that provides up to 25 million gallons per day of drinking water to the region.
Seawater coming into the plant goes through a rigorous pretreatment process then freshwater is separated from the seawater using reverse osmosis. The end product is high-quality drinking water that supplies up to 10 percent of the region’s needs.
http://www.tampabaywater.org/tampa-bay-seawater-desalination-plant/index.aspx
Israel, 8,000 square miles and a population of 8 million. Powers desalination with nuclear power.
California 163,000 square miles, population of 38 million and no one willing to store nuclear waste in “my back yard.”
There's no money left for things like desalination plants. Besides, the liberal elites will have plenty of water to fill their swimming pools ...
So it's no big deal.
by the dozens is right. and they should have been building a long time ago.
israel has about 8 million people. Cali has about 38 million.
israel land size is about 8k square miles. cali is 163k square miles.
America has been comfortable for too long. When you are insulated from reality you make decisions that are divorced from reality.
Texas too but it's easy to figure why Cali doesn't. Water restrictions are part of the socialist reach for control. You Californians will be told long after the drought is over that drought conditions still exist so the government can control your watering and planting. The environazis will do the Left's bidding on this one and claim the plants create environmental hazards if built that will damage the ecostructure blah blah.
They (desalination plants) are too expensive to build...but the same people are for a high speed rail system that costs twice as much. A defunct concrete plant was to be converted to desalination and was beaten down by the environmentalists. And a dam that would save the water now flowing to the sea is opposed because of possible harm to a fish not even indigent to California. These people deserve their fate, they have earned it.