They have the entire Pacific Ocean at their doorstep!
Why do they not have desalinization plants all up and down the coast?
They should have more water than they know what to do with!...................................
“They have the entire Pacific Ocean at their doorstep!
Why do they not have desalinization plants all up and down the coast?”
There was a time when that would have been possible, back when nuclear power was a growth industry here. Unfortunately, with the “current thinking” that nuclear power is a time bomb, desalinization, with it’s high energy requirements, is also gone. And some are even going so far as to suggest that we take down the dams in the Sierras so that the moron tree huggers can once again see scenes like the Hetch Hetchy Valley (the one north of Yosemite) where all the water for San Francisco is impounded. The sad truth of the matter is that we have not built a major water storage facility since 1979 when the population was half what it is today. If we managed the water resources we get from the rain and snow in the Sierras effectively, we wouldn’t even need desal plants.