California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
Glad to hear Pei Xu and colleagues have been working on it. Do we know if an environmentally friendly disposal process has been developed yet? I'm sure it won't be implemented to save cost, but at least we'd have something to fight for.
The article lauds the Israeli approach, so... shrug. Presumably, you can dilute the brine with more sea water and diffuse it across the coastline, so you're not subjecting any single patch of sea to high levels of salinity.