Nevada May Ease Colorado River Worries with California Ocean Desalination Deal
The nonbinding deal could let San Diego sell up to 56,000 acre-feet of desalinated water a year to help ease Colorado River shortages.
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Moving water 'on paper' at heart of new 3-state agreement on Colorado River
A desalination plant that produces up to 54 million gallons of water per day provided the backdrop as water officials from Nevada, Arizona and California signed an agreement on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation across state lines on a water problem that just keeps getting worse.
Trump Official Shares Vision of Desal Plants Lining California Coast
President Donald Trump’s top Colorado River official visited San Diego Wednesday to say the president sees “real potential” in developing more plants that make drinking water using the ocean – right off the California coast. That’s a problem for environmentalists, who say desalination plants are environmentally harmful, energy intensive and costly. “Imagine a future where a string of six, or even a dozen desalination facilities are operating…
Why one of the cities most dependent on the Colorado River now has water for sale
Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state’s biggest cities that’s long been the most dependent on it curiously now has excess water to sell. On a good year, San Diego gets barely eight inches of rain. And not too long ago, the picturesque coastal city was staring down major water supply shortages – it’s notoriously at the end of the line of the Colorado River “straw,” a good thre…
San Diego has achieved a surplus of water thanks to desalination and conservation measures; authorities propose an exchange that could leave more water in Lake Mead for other regions Read more Excess water in San Diego allows transfer to save the Colorado River in News.es.
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