Moonbeam ping!
They should build on by Salton Sea. Clean it up in the process...............
That’s going to require a lot of windmills, since California refuses to build power plants and leeches off the grid instead.
Desalination for long-term drought relief.
Deshowerization for short-term drought relief.
California is filled with environmental extremists and desalination plants are far from a sure thing there.
Desalination should be low on the list of solutions.
They should make more secure, fundamental infrastructure improvements first.
Desalination seems like another way to avoid doing what they should have been doing 50 and 60 years ago, capturing water, creating reservoirs, more efficient importation and moving of water within the state, passive and permanent solutions that would offer a safer base for water in case of terrorism or a nuclear exchange, power disruptions and catastrophes.
Despite what liberal Californians might believe, desalination doesn’t “just happen.” For the amounts of water California wants, it will require fairly large infrastructure built, and lots of energy to operate. That energy isn’t “created somewhere else” for free and delivered in unlimited quantities.
Can’t wait to hear the NIMBY’s when the propose to locate these plants.
Can’t wait to hear the Green Weenies squeal when they talk about how much electricity those plants will need.
RE: Desalination Gains Gov. Brown’s Support for Long-Term Drought Relief
DESALINATION plus HIGH SPEED RAIL. Does California have enough money for BOTH projects?
Let them do it on the cheap, force them to drink salt water.
Jerry Brown just said that the current drought is proof that global warming is upon us. But this article said that the snow pack was this low in 1950, obviously a drought year. My question is: Was the 1950 drought caused by global warming? And studies recently suggested that California had an 80 year drought about a thousand years ago. Was that drought also caused by global warming? Brown is supposed to be an educated man but his remarks about the drought and global warming are juvenile.
“Long term” = after the train to nowhere is paid for.
Can you use sea water on plants ? Take showers with filtered sea water ?
How many years will it take?
The article mentions Brown’s support for “water projects” but does not say that Brown specifically mentioned desalination.
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.