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.
Here we are in the middle of a water shortage situation that is very acute, and the state is just now getting started on these projects. We have one significant one. Why don't we have thirty?
The leadership in this state has failed miserably. Even without this drought, water supplies would have been very tight right now.
Southern California in particular is very strapped for water.
People are being limited to watering their lawns one time per week. They are to cut back their water usage by 20%. Many folks have already cut back due to the shortage, and now this makes it very difficult for them to hit that 20% figure.
There was no need for this. Lakes in northern California were drying up a decade ago. The leadership couldn't figure this one out?
What the hell do we pay them for?
Our freeway system is literally falling apart. Our water supply is very inadequate. Our other infrastructure is in a shambles.
Global warming and gun control are the two main thing the California Legislature works on. We'll that isn't actually true, because they also implement other Leftist agenda legislation at will.
After 50 to 70 years of the Liberals running the show, it's really time for California to actually have some leadership, and above all sanity in that leadership.