Desalination Gains Gov. Brown’s Support for Long-Term Drought Relief

Breitbart.com ^ | 04/06/2015 | Chriss W. Street

[E. Pluribus Unum]

With the Sierra Nevada snowpack at its lowest level since 1950, California Governor Jerry Brown announced last week that he would implement the first mandatory water reductions in state history. But Brown also called on districts to streamline permitting practices for water projects, and to invest in new water infrastructure technologies. Brown’s comments amount to his first vocal support for widespread desalination (or desalinization).

“Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow, “Governor Brown said at a press event in the Sierra Nevada mountains. “This historic drought demands unprecedented action. Therefore, I’m issuing an executive order mandating substantial water reductions across our state.”

[Spartan79]

Let them do it on the cheap, force them to drink salt water.

They won't be drinking sea water, but many may start filling their swimming pools with it.

[cherokee1]

And with his solar plant killing eagles let’s see how long it takes Moonbat to wish he had that Nuke plant back. Expecially if he wants to desalinate sea water.

[American Constitutionalist]

Let the sun evaporate it and lose the salt.

[American Constitutionalist]

Can you use sea water on plants ? Take showers with filtered sea water ?

[SoFloFreeper]

Jerry Brown's house, worth $1.8 million, doesn't fit his tale of frugality

What a hypocrite

[LS]

True. I have a lot of Middle Eastern students, though, and they have a LOT of desalinization plants.

[Old Yeller]

Aw, put the plants on Malibu Beach, and be done with it.

[familyop]

How many years will it take?

[henkster]

They also have a lot of oil to burn in electrical generation plants to run the desalination plants.

My son is a Chemical Engineer; he says the desalination of water on an industrial scale is not cheap. The average cost to produce 1 acre-foot of desalinated water from seawater is projected to range from approximately $800 to about $1,400.

[El Cid]

He may be trying to get in front of the crowd, realizing that he and his moonbat cohorts have largely created this problem themselves (and hoping nobody notices this rather salient fact).

I'd think it is too late for that -- but you can never underestimate the awareness of the voting public (particularly in California).
I was actually surprised he didn't come up with some contrived reason not to investigate desalination plants.

[El Cid]

Re: 12

Sounds like a good idea.
Thus it probably won't happen...

[grundle]

The article mentions Brown’s support for “water projects” but does not say that Brown specifically mentioned desalination.

[Morpheus2009]

Makes no sense, desalination is salt being removed from seawater. Nowhere near as radioactive or as toxic as the nuclear power plant, and FWIW, you could likely even use the salts for mineral content if you wanted to.

[Morpheus2009]

It stinks, because so many countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and many more, use desalination to support their largely desert countries.)

[El Cid]

I agree. Our ‘big government’ loves to lord over us and raise taxes. But to actually do something beneficial and useful - nope, can’t be bothered.

[ek_hornbeck]

Perhaps a better strategy would have been not to squander California’s resources on a bloated surplus population of Mexican illegals and their innumerable offspring.