San Diegoâs Successful Desal Plant Should Be a Model for California Water Policy – California Often the value of a plan or project can best be judged by its opposition. In the case of the proposed Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the forces lined up against it are clear indicators that itâs a worthwhile enterprise. The Sierra Club calls the plant ârather pathetic,â âthe most expensive and environmentally damaging way to secure Orange Countyâs future water supply.â A research paper co-authored by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the California Coastkeeper Alliance, the California Coast Protection Network, and several other groups says that âgiven the significant [âŠ] San Diegoâs Successful Desal Plant Should Be a Model for California Water Policy – CaliforniaHIWI042021-03-05T07:46:33+01:00
An Independent Colorado River Aqueduct Could Be a Money Saver for San Diego – California Thereâs an old saying that those who donât remember history are destined to repeat it. And that certainly holds true when it comes to securing water for this semi-arid place we call home. Those who have been around here since the early 1990s remember when we relied on a single Los Angeles-based water agency to meet almost all of our water needs â and we paid for it with traumatic supply cuts that crippled our economy. (LINK). An Independent Colorado River Aqueduct Could Be a Money Saver for San Diego – CaliforniaHIWI042021-02-13T19:37:50+01:00
A $5-billion water project could drill through Anza-Borrego park. Is it a pipe dream? – California It would be arguably the most ambitious public works project in San Diego history. The envisioned pipeline would carry Colorado River water more than 130 miles from the Imperial Valley â through the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, tunneling under the Cuyamaca Mountains, and passing through the Cleveland National Forest â to eventually connect with a water-treatment plant in San Marcos. An alternative route would run through the desert to the south, boring under Mt. Laguna before emptying into the San Vicente Reservoir in Lakeside. (LINK). A $5-billion water project could drill through Anza-Borrego park. Is it a pipe dream? – CaliforniaHIWI042021-02-06T15:08:49+01:00
Unsung Heroes: Carlsbad’s desalination plant workers – California The Carlsbad Desalination Plant turns seawater into clean safe drinking water. In an effort to keep delivering 50 million gallons of fresh water to the county daily the plant has gone on complete lockdown.As of March 19, 10 workers volunteered to quarantine themselves inside the Carlsbad plant for the next three weeks. The company said workers will continue to monitor and adjust gauges and switches, watching for leaks â doing whatever is needed to safeguard San Diego Countyâs only significant local source of drinking water. [âŠ] Unsung Heroes: Carlsbad’s desalination plant workers – CaliforniaHIWI042020-04-02T16:08:59+02:00
Water Authority Offers to Settle Long-Running Rate Dispute with MWD – California The San Diego County Water Authorityâs board offered Thursday to settle a long-running dispute over rates with the giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The offer, made following a special board meeting, asks MWD to make $140 million in payments to San Diego County water customers to cover claims from 2011 through 2020 and, in the future, follow new, transparent procedures in setting water rates. âThe Water Authorityâs proposal would benefit residents across San Diego County, enhance understanding of how MWDâs rates are [âŠ] Water Authority Offers to Settle Long-Running Rate Dispute with MWD – CaliforniaHIWI042019-12-20T06:19:09+01:00
Gage: Setting the Record Straight on Seawater Desalination – California A recent news release posted on the Voice of OC website was clouded by mischaracterizations of the Claude âBudâ Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, which provides an important source of drinking water for San Diego County and reduces our regionâs reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta. The plant is the result of a historic public-private partnership between the San Diego County Water Authority and Poseidon Water to ensure supply reliability for more than 3 million residents across the region. It helped [âŠ] Gage: Setting the Record Straight on Seawater Desalination – CaliforniaHIWI042019-10-08T15:37:50+02:00
Poseidon Water Congratulates the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Team on $100M DOE Desalination Hub – California Poseidon Water is proud to be part of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Team that was selected to receive $100 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new Energy-Water Desalination Hub. The Hubâs purpose is to advance state-of-the-art technology and research in desalination. Poseidon is a national leader in the development of water supply and treatment projects using a public-private partnership approach and manages the award-winning Claude âBudâ Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant. Poseidon Water Congratulates the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Team on $100M DOE Desalination Hub – CaliforniaHIWI042019-09-28T23:46:00+02:00
Expert cautions developing countries over water desalination plants – San Diego A water expert is cautioning developing countries over the establishment of water desalination plants as a means of providing potable water to the populace. Jeremy Crutchfield of the San Diego County Water Authority in the USA says desalination (the treatment of seawater through the removal of salt) is a very expensive process because of the high cost of operation including the vast amount of electricity needed to operate such plants. Water companies would usually establish treatment plants along rivers and streams which [âŠ] Expert cautions developing countries over water desalination plants – San DiegoHIWI042019-08-16T11:45:40+02:00
As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise – California Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude âBudâ Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America. Each day 100 million gallons of seawater are pushed through semi-permeable membranes to create 50 million gallons of water that is piped to municipal users. Carlsbad, which became fully operational in 2015, creates about 10 percent of the fresh water the 3.1 million people in the region use, at about twice the cost of [âŠ] As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise – CaliforniaHIWI042019-06-14T08:18:19+02:00
Two Agencies Want to Secede From the San Diego County Water Authority Water rates in San Diego are some of the highest in the country. So, two rural San Diego water agencies just came up with a novel way to save money: Buy water from Riverside County instead. Leaders of two water agencies that serve about 50,000 people in and around Fallbrook are fed up with rising costs at the San Diego County Water Authority. Local water agencies from across the region formed the Water Authority in 1944 to import water into the county from rivers [âŠ] Two Agencies Want to Secede From the San Diego County Water AuthorityHIWI042019-06-03T14:57:09+02:00