2006
December 27 - "Long-delayed projects in San Diego County may see light in 2007"
December 22 - "PUC asks Cal Am for 2nd desal site"
December 22 - "CWA approves consultant contract amendment for San Onofre desal
feasibility study"
December 20 - "Bad ocean planning"
December 19 - "Water plant delays run patience dry"
December 16 - "Test desal plant to go up near Moss Landing within month"
December 15 - "Coastal panel OK's pilot desal plant"
December 15 - "Cal Am gets rate hike, OK for desal test"
December 8 - "Coastal staff rejects pilot desal plant"
December 8 - "Desal plans go before coastal panel"
November 29 - "L.B. desalination patent approved after four years"
November 27 - "Water costs could be rising"
November 21 - "Desal repairs may miss 2006"
- New information on Tampa Bay's ongoing desal project
November 10 - San Onofre, local groundwater projects in desal action plan
November 6 - Today’s Seawater is Tomorrow’s Drinking Water:
- UCLA Engineers Develop Nanotech Water Desal Membrane
October 27 - "Water Authority: Still not interested in Carlsbad plant"
October 26- "Public input sought for water project"
October 14 - "Biologist: Power, Desal Plants Don't Harm Fish"
October 13 - "Activists’ Petitions Seen Stalling Desalination Development in State"
October 13 - "Desal Panel Raises Red Flag"
October 12 - "Flushing Water and Money Down the Drain"
October 12 - "Company Floats Offshore Desalination Plan"
October 9 - "Local Desalination Test Plant Ready for State Debate"
October 8 - "Cambria Wells Appealed to Panel"
October 6 - "Coastal Commission Concerned About Desal Energy Use"
September 28 - "Desal's bumpy process to water"
September 22 - "Cal Am: Pilot plant delay inflates costs by $800K a month"
September 8 - "Ships Ahoy: Peninsula water officials ponder desal plant at sea"
- Information about a new floating desal plan being proposed for Monterey
September 8 - "Water Board Hears Plans for Test Plants"
- An update as to the current plans for Poseidon Resources proposed desal pilot
plants in Monterey.
September 3 - "Rough Sea Ahead For Plan to Desalinate North County Areas"
- A look at the economic problems brought on by such an expensive and energy
intense water source.
August 17 - "Next Step For Desal Plants"
- The next big hurdle is looming for two small desalination plants in Moss Landing.
- One substance tests 16 times higher than the EPA's allowable level. Another
federal agency sees no health threat.
August 16 - "Kennedy's Dream"
- History on desal, current draw backs and an update on the Carlsbad propsal.
August 14 - "Water Desalination Draws Fans and Foes"
August - "Dorothy Green and the Power of Water"
July 20 - "Group Sues Carlsbad For Desalination Plant Report"
- An update on the Poseidon Resources' Encina Power Plant plan and the Desal
Response Group's role in it.
July 3 - Editorial: "Desalination a Dud?"
- A look at desal including new information from the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and the Pacific Institute.
June 28 - "Report: Desal Plants Too Costly"
- Environment, pricing make freshwater production prohibitive
June 27 - "Water Projects Criticized"
- A review of the Pacific Institute Report on Desalination as it applies to Marin
- Huntington Beach City Council voted 4-3 to adapt Poseidon Resources'
Conditional Use Permit (CUP) on their 50 MGD desal plant.
February 23- "Desal Project Stalled in Court"
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