Since when?! All of the newcomers are sucking the aquifer dry. We keep this up and we are looking at VERY expensive desalinization.
I have always wondered what makes desal so expensive. The Israelis are very good at it.
I’m at 57’ elevation and the water table is less than 3’ down currently. I’m on a well so no water issue.
I wish the aquafer was more porous to draw the water level down faster. FEMA took 3/4s of my property 2 years ago for being ‘wetlands’. It’s a swamp but it’s filling in due to all the houses around it and birds. Soon as my cypress swamp fills in I’m taking my land back -right before I put the house on the market. But I like it. It’s like living in a nature preserve.
San Diego plant produces a cubic meter of desalinated water for 51 cents at cost. That’s more than 250 gallons.
Distribution and so forth results in their cost of about $2,100 for an acre foot of water as delivered, a supply they view as adequate for 8 persons for a year.