We'll know the state is serious when it stops watering its golf courses.
Posted on 04/30/2022 12:32:07 PM PDT by Libloather
A proposed California desalination plant that would produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day failed a crucial regulatory hurdle on Monday, possibly dooming a project that had been promoted as a partial solution for sustained drought.
The staff of the California Coastal Commission recommended denying approval of the Huntington Beach plant proposed by Poseidon Water, controlled by the infrastructure arm of Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management.
The commission’s staff said the project was more susceptible to sea-level rise than was understood when it was first proposed more than two decades ago. The plant is expected to produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day, enough for 16% of the homes in the Orange County Water District, where 2.5 million people live.
**SNIP**
The Coastal Commission, which is scheduled to consider the matter on May 12, could defy the staff recommendation and vote to approve the project.
The 12-member commission is made up of six local elected officials and six members of the public who are appointed by the governor, a senate committee, and the assembly speaker.
“When Poseidon first proposed its facility at this location nearly 25 years ago, sea level rise projections were much lower and adaptation planning was in its infancy,” the staff report said. “Since that time, our understanding of the severity and consequences of climate change and sea level rise have grown exponentially.”
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California has plenty of water stop growing almonds, rice, and alfalfa in the desert. Alfalfa alone sucks up 5 million acre feet per year that’s enough water for 50 million people. Urban use of water in California is 10% of its total half of that is commercial and industrial so residential is 5% even assuming half of California resident’s were illegals that’s only 2.5% of the total hardly enough to make an impact. Grow dry land crops or fallow acres divert that water which is worth way more to the retail market. Only 2% of state GSP is agricultural in Cali so one a acrefoot per dollar of gross State product it makes more sense to divert water from agricultural use to commercial and industrial by a large margin. People like to beat the dead horse of illegals this and illegals that in this case it’s a textbook straw man argument as the numbers clearly show but hey don’t let facts get in the way of a good ole fashioned political hissy fit the left does it all the time why not the right too.
Here is the actual numbers to back the above observations.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Phew! That was a close call! For a second there I thought that California was going to do something reasonable and rational. Nope! But don’t scare me like that again!
See my above link.
Brookfield may be the problem.
It would be for me.
DROUGHT
We'll know the state is serious when it stops watering its golf courses.
“When Poseidon first proposed its facility at this location nearly 25 years ago...”
A water project that has been stalled by red tape for a quarter of a century. Third World worthy.
The Israelis have desal down to an art form they can make water cheaper and in larger quantities than the North Texas council of governments can deliver city water to DFW. 55 cents per meter cube is only $2.08 for a thousands gallons how water is sold in dfw. The retail rate for city water is $4.8 for the first 7,000 gal and $6.60 from 7K to 20K it goes up astronomically above 20K gal a month that’s just for fresh water if you are tied to city sewage then $7.10 additional for the first 8,000 gallons used.
Israel blows those numbers out of the water using Mediterranean seawaterand imported natural gas for fuel. America with local cheap NG should be even cheaper if the greens and commies get the F out of the way.
https://www.israel21c.org/how-israel-swims-against-tide-of-worldwide-water-crisis/
The Coastal Commission needs to be closed down. Completely and permanently.
Africa https://www.afrik21.africa/en/namibia-a-desalinated-water-bottling-plant-inaugurated-at-henties-bay/
Saudi Arabia https://constructionreviewonline.com/biggest-projects/largest-reverse-osmosis-water-desalination-plant/
Australia https://www.waterfuture.barwonwater.vic.gov.au/desalination
What stupid staffers
California needs water
That’s a great read. Most golf courses now use purple pipe water, nonpotable recycled or reclaimed water or as we say sh1twater from the sewage treatment plants never EVER drink out of a purple hose, faucet or nozzle. Las Vegas has taken technology from yup the Israelis they are second in the world behind Israel in water recycling more than 99% of water used inside structures in Las Vegas gets fully recycled back to Lake
Mead or into purple pipes for industrial or landscape use it’s impressive engineering.
This is the way.
https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recycling/
https://www.snwa.com/water-resources/current-water-supply/index.html
I remember doing a report on desalination plants back in high school in the 1970’s. I think Israel was building one at the time.
Well, it does have electrolytes. There’s that.
Good info. I thought there was a desalinization plant somewhere here in SoCal. Thanks.
It’s what plants crave.
Once the word got out it was pure water, they went away. They are probably the same idiots that buy into the Earth being flooded in so many years.
If the ocean actually is rising, wouldn’t they want to build desalinization plants?
I understand your let them eat cake analogy, but beer contains large amounts of water and beer companies do not like to ship water based products long distances so the beer is normally brewed locally. So, back at square one.... no water.
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