50 mgd is the targeted out put (enough for about 650,000 people per day).
Pet peeve of mine, as I was involved in this project four years ago with a California engineering company.
The plant is being engineered by an Israeli company.
Southern California should have desalination plants all along the coast. So called “environmentalists” should be fully on board as the amount of water from Northern Cali and the Colorado river could be substantially reduced if not eliminated with desalination plants.
I’m guessing the biggest problem is getting enough water for farming. However we are growing a lot of things on land that wouldn’t be arable without irrigation.
I’m a big fan of keeping food production decentralized for exactly this reason.