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What's the status on that desalinization plant?
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Ego, It's still in the approval phase with hopes of being operational by late 2023...
They (Poseidon Water), have an operational plant down in Carlsbad by one of my offices. The discharge is above permitted levels, but it does produce multi million gallons of drinking water each day, and the cost is reasonable at this point. We (SoCal) need to do a lot better job of capturing the rain that we do get. More reservoirs need to be built, better reclamation systems for large water consumers like Parks and Golf Courses. Otherwise, we are on the fast track to Desert Living...
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Pete always dropping the knowledge!
When are we doing another Padres game down in Diego?
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Don't forget the "bullet train" when you talk about infrastructure
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You're 100% correct! I just turned 29, and not in my lifetime will a bullet train ever get built! ).gif)
They can't even get the 405 Freeway built, Caltrans has been in Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley and HB for over 3 years, just trying to re-build a few bridges!
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Maybe we will get one built to Bakersfield in several decades, if we're lucky.
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SoCal will become the 51st state of the Union, West Arizona, if we don't get our water situation handled!
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Western states that depend on, or get a lot of their water from Mead, are in for a big awakening next year. California's about to lose 2 -4 million acre/ft of water.
The shortsightedness of the state government is coming back to bite the state in the ass. They knew this was coming and did NOTHING and continue to do nothing.
SC is desert and chapparell - hot dry ecotones. That's what they're going back to.
Bottom line is that there are too many people, the planet can't sustain the population.
Atticus Finch
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that's not what musk thinks
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Desalinization plants transformed Israel, and if we're smart here in California, we'd end up doing the same thing.
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fuck...they have that old nuclear plant in san onofre...just let that thing desalinate some sea water...easy peasy shit
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Many people are actually against a desalination plant messing up (in their opinion) the beach.
The well-off NIMBYs in the beach towns don't want to be bothered by traffic and noise, nor do they want to see a big ole' factory-type building messing up the beach view. And the environmentalists are against desalination plants at the beach because the plants will cause heat pollution in the surrounding water.
But, it obviously doesn't make sense to put a desalination plant in Watts or El Monte! So my prediction is that we won't be getting any desalination plants any time soon.
Too bad, because we need water very badly. Aside from the drought of surface water, all the well water we've been drawing up from the water tables over the last decade has really depleted the underground aquifers.
The water shortage is really killing the farmers and that hurts everyone, even the beach town NIMBYs and the environmentalists.
Unless we can find a cheap way to import water from somewhere new, I believe we very much need desalination. I do not believe we can conserve our way out of a drought that may have no predictable end.
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My issue is residential water usage is less than 20% of the total water used in this state so even if we drop by 30% it won't make that much of a difference.
Long story short...decades ago farmers were told the amount they used was going to be their water rights in the future...not being stupid people, they pumped all the water they could to boost their usage. Now those water rights can't be decreased.
I know that agriculture needs lots of water...however, I wonder if there are better ways than spraying water in the air.
HB already said no to the desalination plant.
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Newsome is talking about a desalination plant in LA county.
1.desalination plant
2. allow residential use of "grey water" for watering lawns and plants
3. collect rain water
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