On 5/24/2015 10:32 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2015-05-24, William > wrote:
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>> They may need to build massive desalinization plants on the California
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> Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you.
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> nb
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0N601V20150415

California's 3-year-old drought has thrust seawater desalination into
the spotlight as San Diego County, Santa Barbara and other cities push
ahead with treatment plants that will soon turn the Pacific Ocean into a
source of drinking water.

Desalination has emerged as a newly promising technology in California
in the face of a record dry spell that has forced tough new conservation
measures, depleted reservoirs and raised the costs of importing fresh
water from elsewhere.

But experts warn that converting seawater to drinking supplies remains
an expensive, energy-intensive enterprise that has had mixed success in
places like Australia and Florida.

The biggest ocean desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, a $1
billion project under construction since 2012 on a coastal lagoon in the
California city of Carlsbad, is nearly completed and due to open in
November, delivering up to 50 million gallons of water a day to San
Diego County.

That is enough to supply roughly 112,000 households, or about 10 percent
of the county's drinking water needs, according to Poseidon Resources,
the Connecticut-based company behind the facility.