California sits next to the largest body of water in the world. The oceans of the world collectively, are at it’s disposal.
Even little Israel has the financial wherewithal to desalinize the Mediteranian, but poor old California is (dis)graced with leadership that hasn’t got 200 brain cells collectively. And these are supposed collectivists.
It’s a disgrace what 50-70 years of Democrat rule in California’s legislature has done to the state.
California Opens Up the Floodgates for Desalination
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/california-opens-up-the-floodgates-for-desalination-150508.htm
The move was welcomed by developers who already are moving ahead on big desalination projects, including the Carlsbad Desalination Project, a $1 billion plant near San Diego that is under construction and scheduled to begin delivering potable water to consumers this Fall. That project is expected to provide 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about 7 percent of San Diego County’s water needs.
“It reaffirms that the Pacific Ocean is part of the drinking water resources for the state of California,” said Scott Maloni, an executive with Poseidon Water, a development firm that’s working on the Carlsbad project and another proposed plant in Huntington Beach.
California already has a string of small-scale desalination plants, such as one built in 1991 on Santa Catalina Island that provides about 90 percent of the drinking water for that isolated offshore community. By comparison, the Caribbean nation Aruba provides its residents with freshwater using a desalination plant with a capacity to provide 11 million gallons of freshwater a day. Israel currently has the world’s largest desalination planet, and its plants’ combined output provide freshwater to 35 percent of the population, with plans to produce 70 percent of Israel by mid-century.
.....California sits next to the largest body of water in the world.
You got that right! SO glad we escaped from this state.
I’ve wondered why they don’t let the ocean drain into the Salton Sea and set up solar evaporation units, like the ones in emergency kits that have a tent over evaporating water. Maybe they could even use solar panels to speed the evaporation.
Water is right there with food and power as something the government should promote.