Posted on 04/25/2015 7:34:42 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
As surely as the hot, dry Santa Ana winds bring blue skies to the coast and wildfires to the hills, severe California droughts bring calls to build desalination plants up and down the seashore.
All that ocean water, begging to be converted to fresh and pumped into our pipelines, would solve our water supply problems instantly and permanently, boosters say. In the coming months, the drumbeat will only get louder.
That's not only because the current drought is the longest and most severe in memory, but because a $1-billion desalination project scheduled to start operating in Carlsbad this fall will be attracting lots of attention. The plant, the largest of its kind in the U.S., is designed to provide San Diego County with about 50 million desalinated gallons a day, about 7% of its water needs.
"A lot of people are watching what's going to happen in Carlsbad," says Peter MacLaggan, the executive overseeing the project for its developer, privately held Poseidon Water. "They're going to base their future decisions on the success of this project."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
PLEASE, PLEASE take them.
I am a small farmer (meaning I am the whole crew, do everything guy) in Northern California.
Those south state leeches will drive me out of my home for their pools, lawns and views.
The Lib/Prog communists in Sacramento only care about their train to nowhere.
I don’t care if California runs out of water. Their stupidity is not my problem. I have enough of stupid to deal with in Ct.
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