Drinking Salt Water is Next !

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San Diego turns to ocean for fresh water

SAN DIEGO - San Diego County hopes to get 20 percent of its
tap water from the ocean by 2020, which would make it the
world leader in desalination, officials said. The county
water authority is contemplating construction of a desalin-
ation plant at Camp Pendleton, Calif., that could produce
150 million gallons a day, The San Diego Union-Tribune re-
ported Sunday. Poseidon Resources plans a plant in Carlsbad
that could produce 50 million gallons daily by 2012. The
largest such plant now in existence or under construction
is in Algeria. That plant, scheduled for completion in 2011,
would produce 132 million gallons daily. San Diego County
is also involved in discussions with the International
Boundary and Water Commission on building a plant in Mexico
15 miles south of the border. The county currently gets 90
percent of its water from the Colorado River and from
Northern California. San Diego cannot expect supplies from
either to increase. "The fact that there's no large ground-
water basin limits our opportunities," said Ken Weinberg,
the authority's director of water resources. "We have very
limited sources -- you have recycling, you have conservation
and you've got the ocean."

 

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that it is the old USA way---Help other countries even if we get nothing in return---Some day that policy will come back to haunt us---When I think about it---------------------It already has !

 

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[Ed SW Fla]

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Marguerite's (If I spelled Correctly)

 

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