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Desalination has major role in San Diego water plans

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 8, 2009 at 6:10 am

From the San Diego News Network:

With a Carlsbad desalination plant set to start producing 50 million gallons of drinking water daily starting in 2012, San Diego County is positioned to become a global leader in making ocean water drinkable. If all goes as planned, about 20 percent of all drinking water in the region will come from the ocean by 2020, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday.

Work is continuing apace on the Poseidon Resources plant in Carlsbad, and the San Diego County Water Authority recently completed a feasibility study on desalination plant at Camp Pendleton that would produce about 150 million gallons per day. The cost — about $2 billion.

“If they go ahead with (the full-sized version), it will be the biggest seawater desalination plant in the world,” Tom Pankratz, editor of the Water Desalination Report, told the newspaper.

Algeria is working to complete what would be the largest desalination plant in the world. Set to start operating in 2011, it would produce 132 million gallons per day. The county water authority is also exploring with the International Boundary and Water Commission the idea of building a desalination plant in Rosarito Beach.

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June 8, 2009 · Filed Under Desalination

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