Is desalination the future of drought relief in California?

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-15 01:10:23 | Updated at 2025-01-15 07:02:24 6 hours ago

Is desalination the future of drought relief in California?
PBS NewsHour channel at YouTube ^ | October 31, 2025

Posted on 01/14/2025 4:56:08 PM PST by grundle

Oct 31, 2015

San Diego is set to soon start supplying itself with millions of gallons a day of fresh, drinkable water, using saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, converted by a brand new desalination plant. As California's historic drought continues, the plant will likely intensify the debate over the role of desalination may play in the state's water supply. Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports.

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1 posted on 01/14/2025 4:56:08 PM PST by grundle

To: grundle

CA has plenty of water flowing down from the Sierras. They let it flow to the sea.

2 posted on 01/14/2025 4:58:32 PM PST by lurk (u)

To: grundle

Not when Newsom’s $250,000 donors own all the water...

3 posted on 01/14/2025 5:00:30 PM PST by TigerClaws

To: lurk

CA has plenty of water flowing down from the Sierras. They let it flow to the sea.

Exactly.

Desalinization is expensive and energy intensive, totally unnecessary given the multiple of locations throughout California that could be dammed up into reservoirs.

4 posted on 01/14/2025 5:01:33 PM PST by Drew68

To: grundle

There was a desalinization project going forward in Huntington Beach
Then the infamous costal commission scuttled it

5 posted on 01/14/2025 5:07:27 PM PST by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)

To: Drew68

There is abundant untapped water for fire fighting available to the people of Southern California:

All those swimming pools
The Pacific Ocean

The swimming pools are a simple no brainer. The ocean is a simple no brainer for the areas long the coast, and doable, but requiring more infrastructure, for inland.

6 posted on 01/14/2025 5:08:35 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)

To: Jeff Chandler

7 posted on 01/14/2025 5:09:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)

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