Key Issues for Seawater Desalination in California

摘要: In June 2006, the Pacific Institute released Desalination, with a Grain of Salt, an assessment advantages and disadvantages seawater desalination for California (Cooley et al. 2006). At that time, there were twenty-one active proposals along coast. Since then, only one project, small plant in Sand City, has been permitted built. A second Carlsbad, all necessary permits, finally secured financing December 2012, is now under construction. Interest desalination, however, remains high California, many agencies are conducting technical environmental studies pilot projects to determine whether develop full-scale facilities.