Ringside: Desalination at Scale is Cost Competitive – California Globe

Ringside: Desalination at Scale is Cost Competitive – California Globe

On May 22, 2022, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny final approval for a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. It would have produced 56,000 acre feet of fresh water per year, and would have been privately financed. To describe in detail the 20 year and roughly $100 million ordeal that federal, state, regional, and local agencies put the contractor through, along with continuous litigation, could consume volumes. But w…

Salt to Salvation: The Desalination Revolution in California’s Drought Battle

Visibly low water conditions at Shasta Lake in Shasta County, on October 13, 2022. Andrew Innerarity / California Department of Water Resources. Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.  — Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  Support California Curated with a small donation. Desalination, the process of turning seawater into potable water, is gaining traction as a viable solution to California’s perennial dr…