With the recent regulatory approval of the Carlsbad (San Diego) desalination plant to be built by Poseidon, chatter on the net about Desal seems to have gotten louder. Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute recently posted two articles about desalination, its costs and energy requirements.
Even more interesting, in my opinion, is a report from non-profit organization Food and Water Watch‘s James Fryer titled: Sustaining Our Water Future: A Review of the Marin Municipal Water District’s Alternatives to Improve Water Supply Reliability.
Fryer served as coordinator of the Marin Municipal Water District’s (MMWD) water conservation program from 1990 to 1999. According to their website Food and Water watch is a nonprofit consumer organization based in Washington, D.C., with offices on the west coast. It works to ensure clean water and safe food in the United States and around the world. They challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. Read their report on Marin’s Desalination plans here.
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Thanks for this useful information, Amanda. Food & Water Watch has also published DESALINATION: AN OCEAN OF PROBLEMS, which is a careful analysis worth reading.
We’ve just begun to understand the scope and depth of the conservation needed to face the consequences of our greed and expansive pollution in dealing with natural resources. I hope we Cambrians will show what conservation can do to save the planet, including us.