State of Emergency in Washington?

RAS43 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
If we are so smart why are we not making fresh water from salt water?

There are countries that do have desalination plants, like Saudi Arabia. And San Diego is completing a plant to supply their needs.

I would love to hear exactly how much fresh drinking grade water that plant produces % wise?

One of the big problems with these plants is the saliene contamination in the local waters of the ocean. Unless the return is MILES out and in the currents, double the salt output in calm waters will likely kill everything in the area.

I am far from a treehugger, but I also grew up on the ocean and maintain a salt water reef tank, and I know it takes very little to kill it all.