California approves biggest desalination plant in Western Hemisphere
The largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere is headed for a lagoon just north of San Diego, thanks to the final approval of the California State Lands Commission last Friday. The project, headed up by Spanish renewables firm Acciona, will output 50 million gallons of salt-free water a day, which translates into about 10% of the drinking water needed for San Diego County. That's good news for drought-ridden Californians, but not until the plant opens in 2011. Located near Carlsbad, this plant is expected to be only the first of many desalination projects for California. It seems that the latest round of extreme droughts have pushed California lawmakers to take more serious action than just spraying silver iodide into the clouds. They plan to start pumping seawater like a Middle Eastern country. Officials have set a goal to produce 500 million gallons of desalinated water by 2030, giving them a reliable buffer against increasingly unreliable rain and snowfall conditions.
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