The Marina Coast Water District (MCWD) announced at a meeting of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors that it is going to restart its long-dormant desalination plant.
At full capacity, it can produce 300,000 gallons per day of potable water, according to MCWDâs website.
SeaWell LLC, a company formed by Ecomerit Technologies, the Santa Barbara renewable energy pioneer and long-time US Department of Energy partner in technology innovation, is working with Vandenberg Space Force Base to deploy SeaWellâs ocean desalination buoys to produce freshwater for the Base. SeaWell buoys can be rapidly deployed to help meet the critical need for a dependable water supply. A single buoy provides a yearly water supply comparable to 5,200 households.
The plan is to provide roughly 950 acre-feet of freshwater annually. Thatâs equal to more than 309 million gallons. The project is in its very early stages. If the pilot program is approved, the desalination buoy could be in the water by 2025.
His plan calls for creating storage for four million acre-feet of water and recycling or reusing 800,000 acre-feet per year by 2030 in addition to more stormwater capture and desalination projects.
An acre-foot of water is generally considered enough to supply two urban households per year.
«The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dries are getting a lot drier and ⊠the wets are getting wetter,» Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday at a desalination plant under construction in Antioch, 72 kilometres inland from San Francisco, that will turn brackish water [âŠ]
The new facility, located at the cityâs wastewater treatment plant, will use large reverse-osmosis filters to create 6 million gallons of fresh water per dayâabout a third of the cityâs needsâbut with room for expansion.
That wastewater recycling plant is currently in the design phase and set to be in operation by 2025. Itâll likely provide 900 to 1,000 acre-feet per year of fresh water for Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Arroyo Grande, Oceano and the county.
The city has great access to saline water.
âŠin 2016, Catalina invested in a second desalination plant, which turns saltwater into freshwater. Together the plants now process nearly 250,000 gallons of water per day, which is about 40% of the islandâs drinking water.
Desal wonât save California from its thirst, becauseâŠ.
Groundwater keeps shrinking, reservoirs keep drying. Is it time for California to use desalinization to increase its depleted water supplies? How California gets water? To be clear, California already has 11 operating desalinization plants of varying sizes and around 10 more pending approval.
The Claude Bud Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad is the largest desal plant in the country.
Lake Oroville, an important reservoir in Butte County, had sunk to 49% of capacity by July 1. Lake Shasta was at [âŠ]
As the stateâs water supplies continue to dwindle during this drought, itâs always worth weighing the pros and cons of desalinization to meet the stateâs water needs Groundwater keeps shrinking, reservoirs keep drying.
Is it time for California to use desalinization to increase its depleted water supplies?
California is enduring another punishing drought, this one only a few years after the last one ended, which was the most severe drought in the stateâs nearly 500 years of recorded history.
Low winter snowpack combined with scorching summer temperatures and the [âŠ]
A plant that removes salt from water is now running in Menifee, giving officials another tool to reduce their reliance on imported water as Californiaâs drought continues.
The Eastern Municipal Water District opened its third groundwater desalination plant, the Perris II Groundwater Desalination Facility.
The plant will remove salt from underground water basins tapped by wells in Perris â nearly 5.4 million gallons of water per day.