[Cicero]

Reverse osmosis has the advantage that it uses less power than distillation--but still presumably some power. I'd be curious about the power requirements of the new Israeli process.

The problem for California is that the environmental extremists want to have their cake and eat it too. And the power and water shortages are now intertwined.

[IncPen]

I would think a Nuclear powered de-sal plant would neatly solve all the problems, but then I'm not an enviromentalist wacko, either...