More Desalination Projects Planned in California

摘要

With the successful completion of the $1-billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., the project's developer is moving forward with plans to build a second plant at Huntington Beach. Water began running through the 54-million-gallon-a-day Carlsbad desalination plant in December, and the plant has been running smoothly since then, according to Bob Yamada, the San Diego County Water Authority's (SDCWA) water-resources director. The water will provide 10% of the water supply to local residents and is part of the authority's strategy to diversity the region's water-supply portfolio. "This has been over 15 years in the making, so it is something where we are all very pleased and proud," says Peter MacLaggan, vice president of Poseidon Water (see related story, p. 34).