During the California drought of the 1980s Santa Barbara built a desalinization plant to provide drinking water to the city. The plant, which only ran for six weeks after it was completed in 1992, is being reopened. The plant comes with concerns about the economic and environmental costs of creating fresh water out of seawater, and the likelihood that even with new conservation measures it won’t provide the needed water for the region. http://bit.ly/1yUZDWS
Seawater into Drinking Water—Can it save California?
