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Tag: Orange County

West Basin Municipal Water District hires Irvine water executive as new general manager

February 21, 2018 smarterwater

A water industry veteran from Orange County has been hired as the new general manager of the West Basin Municipal…

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Filed under: Carol Kwan, Desalination, Donald Dear, Irvine Ranch, Los Angeles, Ocean, Ocean desalination, Orange County, Patrick Sheilds, Water district, Water recycling, West Basin, West Basin Municipal Water District

California no necesita la desalinización

October 12, 2017 smarterwater

El Condado de Orange, donde Poseidon desea construir una de sus plantas, no necesita la desalinización Érica Fernández Zamora | La…

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Filed under: access, beach, California, California Drought, clean water, Climate Change, Desal, Desalination, equity, Huntington Beach, Ocean, Orange County, Poseidon, San Diego
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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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