[lurk]

The Israelis have been pioneers of desalinization, and have plants on the Med shoreline.

But we don’t want to do what the Israelis are doing. We don’t want to do anything wise.

[D Rider]

DeSal takes power. Wind and solar won’t cut it.

[353FMG]

Civic Planners should visit the desalination plant in Jubail on the Saudi east coast.

[LouAvul]

No, stupid kommiefornians would rather flush good, fresh water into the ocean to protect some germ called delta smelt. Meanwhile, they're bringing in million of wetbacks which, yep, consume our water.

The "west" has it coming.

[Hootowl99]

I worked with desalination tech in an industrial setting about 10 years ago. At that time, there were three OEM companies with credible, large scale industrial + international experience that met the client’s requirements. One each were from Israel, US and Europe. It's fair to say that Israel builds excellent equipment with a unique and clever twist to it that is absolutely competitive with everyone else’s best.

For smaller size desalination, reverse osmosis is often a good technology. When the application gets more technically difficult or larger in size, multieffect evaporation is probably a better choice. There's no one size fits all or you hit the round peg, square hole wall.

At this same time 10 years ago, the Israeli company with their really good technology was in advanced business discussions and had performed the preliminary engineering to scope and cost a west coast project in California. Huge system. Very sweet system. Damn good system. Environmental and democrat political powers that be scuttled the project. I have thought how cool it would have been if they had taken all that work product south to Mexico and made northern Baja bloom.