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Tag: Department of Water Resources

Desalinated Water in California Doesn’t Have to Come From the Ocean

March 20, 2018 smarterwater

California has granted more than $34 million to desalination projects, and much of that money is going toward brackish water…

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Filed under: Brackish desalination, California, Department of Water Resources, Desalination, Drought, Groundwater, Groundwater restoration, Ocean, Salinity, San Francisco Bay, Seawater desalination, Sustainability, Water
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Seawater desal is…

“unlikely to be a major part of California’s water supply portfolio due to its high cost of operation, the availability of other sources of water (such as recycled wastewater), its high energy use and the resulting high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and siting difficulties given the fragility and importance of California’s coastal ecosystems.”  Water in the West, Stanford University, 2016.

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