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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Desalination</title>
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		<title>Energy Recovery Devices (ERDs) make desalination a reality</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21891</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Product Design &#038; Development, this article on energy recovery devices:
&#8221;  &#8230; Historically in the U.S., desalination has been met with much controversy. Opponents think the process uses too much energy and is not good for the environment. These are antiquated arguments that were probably true 30 years ago.
Since then, technologies and processes have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is desalination damned in Cambria? Mercury contamination and other environmental concerns plague Cambria&#8217;s proposed desalination plant</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21355</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21355#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From New Times SLO:
&#8220;Los Osos has its sewer battle, Morro Bay has its controversial smoke stacks, and Cambria has its perpetual dispute over a proposed desalination plant. Residents there have been fighting with the town’s leaders for more than 15 years. Most recently, a proposal to drill testing wells drew loud criticisms from people worried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision postponed on desalination test environmental report</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21323</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21323#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
&#8220;A decision on taking the next step in desalination plant planning was postponed Feb. 25 by Cambria Community Services District directors. More time is needed, they decided, to review detailed, technical comments about the district’s finding that there would be no significant environmental impact caused by drilling a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brine concentrate reports published by Bureau of Reclamation</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21175</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21175#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Desalination &#038; Water Reuse:
&#8220;Reports deriving from the Southern California Regional Brine-Concentrate Management Study &#8211; Phase 1 have been made available on the website of the US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
The Southern California Regional Brine-Concentrate Management Study is a collaboration between the USBR and 14 local and state agency partners, who together form the Brine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new desalination method for California water woes?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21092</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21092#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the LA Times Greenspace blog:
&#8220;The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s rationing program has reduced the city’s water use to an 18-year low.  But Los Angeles’ long-term water challenges are well-documented. Why can’t the city take advantage of the sea to solve its water shortage?  Because conventional approaches to desalination, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European thoughts on economics of coastal management</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21090</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21090#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Desalination &#038; Water Reuse:
&#8220;D&#038;WR readers involved in environmental studies for seawater desalination plants may be interested in a series of briefings just published via the European Union&#8217;s Science for Environmental Policy website under the heading Coastal Management.
Prof Raimonds Ernsteins  of the University of Latvia, Riga, says in a preface, &#8220;We need to better understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why no rose? Seems clear: Oceanside&#8217;s Sanchez desal vote indicative of misplaced values, says editorial</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20435</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20435#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the North County Times, this editorial:
&#8220;Oceanside City Councilwoman Esther Sanchez&#8217;s vote Wednesday on the California Coastal Commission was a good example of why we weren&#8217;t exactly thrilled when she was named to the commission late last year.
The California Coastal Commission was in town with an agenda that included a request by the Coast Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research report: Harmful algae and their potential impacts on desalination operations off southern California</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20389</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20389#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Political Ecology and Science Direct, a report on the affect of algae on desalination.  Here is the abstract:
&#8220;Seawater desalination by reverse osmosis (RO) is a reliable method for augmenting drinking water supplies. In recent years, the number and size of these water projects have increased dramatically. As freshwater resources become limited due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State agency denies challenge to Carlsbad desalination project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20194</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KPBS:
&#8220;The California Coastal Commission voted 8-to-4 Wednesday to dismiss a challenge to the construction permit for a proposed desalination plant in Carlsbad.
The Commission denied the revocation request by Surfrider Foundation and San Diego Coastkeeper after a three-hour hearing.
The location of the recently-approved Carlsbad Desalination Plant.
Enlarge this image
It was the second time in as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Commission denies attempt to revoke Carlsbad desalination permit</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20187</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Poseidon Resources:
&#8220;San Diego, CA – The California Coastal Commission today voted to dismiss a request filed by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Carlsbad Desalination Project’s Coastal Development Permit (CDP).  The vote marked the second time in as many months that the Commission rejected an attempt by a handful of opponents to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlsbad desalination project survives revocation attempt</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20172</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20172#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Groksurf&#8217;s San Diego:
&#8220;The California Coastal Commission voted 8-4 today against a motion to revoke the approval for the Carlsbad Desalination Plant.
At issue was whether the commission had earlier been misled about whether and how the project would be “carbon neutral.” Proponents of revocation said that Poseiden Resources misled the commission into believing that Metropolitan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlsbad desalination plant faces another revocation hearing</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20141</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20141#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KPBS:
&#8220;SAN DIEGO — Opponents of a desalination plant in Carlsbad want a state agency to revoke the project&#8217;s coastal development permit. A hearing on the revocation request starts Wednesday morning in Oceanside.
The desalination project is located at the Encina Power Station in the City of Carlsbad.
It&#8217;s the second time in as many months that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Commission Staff recommends denial of request to revoke Carlsbad desalination project permit; California Air Resources Board opposes efforts to revisit project’s GHG plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20049</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20049#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Poseidon Resources, this media statement:
&#8220;San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced that California Coastal Commission staff has recommended that the Commission deny the request made by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Coastal Development Permit for the Carlsbad Desalination Project.   The Commission is scheduled to hear the revocation request when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poseidon Resources requests State Attorney General  to enforce Coastal Commission regulations: California Environmental Rights Foundation violating Coastal Act regulations</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19982</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19982#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Poseidon Resources:
&#8220;San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced they have petitioned [see attached letter] the state Attorney General and the California Coastal Commission challenging the legal standing of the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF), an opponent of seawater desalination that has twice initiated proceedings to revoke the Coastal Development Permit issued to the Carlsbad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Orange County desalination takes next step</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19895</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19895#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the O. C. Register:
&#8220;A desalination project that could improve water supplies in South County communities by converting ocean water is moving to the next stage of testing.
The Municipal Water District of Orange County announced Wednesday that it has awarded a $1.05 million contract to Separation Processes Inc. for Phase 3 of the South Orange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poseidon Resources&#8217; Carlsbad desalination project reaches financing milestone</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19468</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19468#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Poseidon Resources, this media statement:
&#8220;San Diego &#8212; Poseidon Resources today announced the California Debt Limitation Allocation Committee (“CDLAC”) has voted unanimously (3-0) to allocate $530 million in Private Activity Bonds (“PABs”) to the Carlsbad Desalination Project.  CDLAC administers and allocates the state’s annual allocation of federal tax-exempt PABs for the financing of certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona water official: Desalination an expensive but necessary prospect</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19333</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19333#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Arizona Capitol Times:
&#8220;Desalinating ocean water is an expensive prospect but something Arizona must look toward in addressing population growth and increasingly dry weather brought on by climate change, a state official told lawmakers Jan. 21.
“As we plan for the future, we must plan for the eventuality that we must look at these kinds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NanoH2O to change the economics of desalination; “It all comes down to the performance of the membrane”</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19044</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GreenTech Media:
&#8220;There is a looming water crisis for everyone on the globe as populations rise, as pollution increases and as climate and weather patterns change.  There is already a water crisis in many developing nations and in some not-so-developing regions like Australia and California.    The stats for &#8220;embedded&#8221; or &#8220;virtual&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Research Service: Desalination &#8211; status and federal issues</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19015</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19015#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Congressional Research Service:
&#8220;In the United States, desalination is increasingly investigated as an option for meeting municipal water demands, particularly for coastal communities that can desalinate seawater or estuarine water, interior communities above brackish groundwater aquifers, and communities with contaminated water supplies.
Adoption of desalination, however, remains constrained by financial, environmental, regulatory, and other factors. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuttal commentary: Desal plant foes not &#8216;fringe&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18889</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18889#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poseidon's Carlsbad Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the North County Times, this rebuttal commentary by Joe Geever of the Surfrider Foundation to a recent commentary by Ted Owen of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce:
&#8220;The Perspective article, &#8220;Enough is enough with desalination lawsuits,&#8221; written by Ted Owens and published in your paper Jan. 10 contains enough offensive inaccuracies that it demands a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiative process starts to get a Marin vote on desalination</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18848</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News:
&#8220;An initiative to require a vote before the Marin Municipal Water District moves forward with desalination plans could come before voters in November if enough signatures are gathered by June.
A group of residents led by Bill Rothman of Belvedere plans to gather about 11,000 signatures &#8211; the required 10 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desalination should be a last resort in our water portfolio, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18777</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Network, this commentary by Stuart Reznick, Executive Director of Coastkeeper, in response to the recent Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce Ted Owen&#8217;s commentary:

&#8220;Environmental groups challenging the Carlsbad Desalination Plant have recently come under attack for deeply scrutinizing the project, proposed as the region’s most expensive and energy intensive water supply option. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desal and “carbon”ated water: Coastal Commission should make the Carlsbad project offset all of its carbon impacts</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18563</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Progress Report, this commentary by Jonas Minton of the Planning &#038; Conservation League:
&#8220;Carbon emissions and water supply are two sides of the same coin. In California nearly 20 percent of our electrical energy is used to move water around the State, treat it for use and then treat it again for disposal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlsbad legal challenge loses Surfrider Foundation</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18560</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Desalination &#038; Water Reuse:
&#8220;One of the two groups staging a last-ditch challenge to the Carlsbad desalination plant, Surfrider Foundation, has abandoned its legal challenge to the California State Lands Commission&#8217;s approval of the project.
In August, the San Diego Superior Court issued a final ruling upholding the State Lands Commission&#8217;s 2008 approval of the Project. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough with desalination lawsuits, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18492</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the North County Times, this commentary by Ted Owen from the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce:
&#8220;As 2009 ended, the latest attempt to derail the Carlsbad Desalination Plant was rejected by the Coastal Commission. The celebration was short-lived, as two fringe environmental groups, undaunted by yet another defeat, kept up their assault on the project by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfrider Foundation abandons lawsuit challenging Carlsbad desalination project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18480</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Poseidon Resources, this media statement:
&#8220;San Diego, CA &#8211; Poseidon Resources today announced it has been notified by the Surfrider Foundation that the organization has abandoned its legal challenge to the State Lands Commission’s approval of the Carlsbad Desalination Project (Project).  In August, the San Diego Superior Court issued a final ruling upholding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monterey desalination plant moves forward: Desalinated water could come to the Monterey coast of California &#8220;as soon as 2012&#8243;, according to the Marina Coast Water District</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18392</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Desalination &#038; Water Reuse:
&#8220;The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) certified the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Coastal Water Project on 17 December 2009.
The Coastal Water Project would consist of several distinct components: a seawater intake system; a desalination plant; a brine discharge system; product water conveyance pipelines and storage facilities; and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Prophet blog: Mekorot’s Water Tech makes a splash in California’s dry valley</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17738</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Green Prophet blog:
&#8220;It is almost mind-boggling that Israel, a country with such a dearth of fresh water resources, has become a leader in water technologies. That is, until you learn about Mekorot.
Most of Israel’s $1.4 billion in water tech exports last year wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the government-owned water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal filed against Carlsbad desalination ruling</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17604</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union Tribune:
&#8220;Environmental groups that oppose an ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad have appealed a San Diego Superior Court ruling that favors plant development.
San Diego Coastkeeper and the Surfrider Foundation filed an appeal this month of a November ruling that allows developer Poseidon Resources to build the 50 million-gallon-a-day plant on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental groups appeal Carlsbad desal plant approval</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17528</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Network:
&#8220;Two environmental groups are appealing the California State Lands Commission’s approval of a desalination plant already under construction in Carlsbad, it was announced Tuesday.
San Diego Coastkeeper and the Surfrider Foundation argue the State Lands Commission’s 2008 approval did not take into consideration changes to the project that necessitate further environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road-map to desalination: Leader of Army Corps of Engineers partnership with Cambria district on desalination plant gives his report</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17390</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
&#8220;With all the dispatch and efficiency one might expect from a ranking military officer, the commander of the Los Angeles District of the Army Corps of Engineers spelled out for Cambria Community Services District directors on Monday, Dec. 14, a road-map to a desalination plant to buttress Cambria’s water supply.
Engineer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California panel addresses desal and threats to marine life</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17283</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Network, this commentary by Bruce Reznik, executive director of the San Diego Coastkeeper (not to be confused with Stewart Resnick, who appears in other news today):
&#8220;San Diego recently hosted the California Ocean Protection Council (COPC), a committee we haven’t seen in this region since 2005. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poseidon&#8217;s Huntington Beach desalination plant gaining support</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17209</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the O. C. Register:
&#8220;HUNTINGTON BEACH – Poseidon Resources has gained support from Orange County cities and water districts for its $350 million project that would convert seawater into drinking water to combat the drought plaguing the county.
Seal Beach City Council members on Monday voted to join a list of 14 other agencies that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shawn DeWane: Could seawater desalination come to Orange County?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17206</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the O. C. Register, this commentary by Shawn DeWane, board president at Mesa Consolidated Water District:
&#8220;Seawater desalination has been discussed as a potential large scale water source since the days of Aristotle. This technology has proven itself effective over the past 20 years in applications like naval and cruise ships and in areas of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlsbad desal plant moves forward despite opposition</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17126</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Network:
&#8220;Ten years ago, Poseidon Resources embarked on a journey to turn the ocean’s water into a usable supply for human consumption.
A myriad of lawsuits and battles later, the Carlsbad Desalination Project is now more than a month into its construction amid California’s water crisis — and not only are San [...]]]></description>
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