Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumCalifornia: Desalination Clears Hurdle
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/us/california-desalination-clears-hurdle.html
hunter
(38,326 posts)When the intergalactic coroner files her report on Homo sapiens that will be one of the items on the autopsy report.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)50 million gallons a day, which would amount to 30+ gallons/day/person. Yet that would only supply 7% of San Diego's needs.
That adds up to around 400 gallons/person/day. They've stolen the river water, they've stolen the Salton Sea, they've stolen from the aquifers beneath the deserts, now they want the ocean water. 50 million gallons a day of it. That takes a lot of fuel/electricity to produce and leaves behind a lot of salt.
BTW, I live on the ocean, not far from San Diego. I make drinking water from the ocean using solar power. 10 gallons a week for 2 people. We use sea water for dishes and fresh water for bathing and rinsing dishes and laundry, about 20 gallons a week.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)The technology necessary to compensate for intermittancy is... a water tank.
hunter
(38,326 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)They charge the big users of water higher rates. Then subsistence users don't subsidize pool owners.