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[12/30/10] Southern California must do more to save surplus
water for the future
[12/27/10] LA eases grass-only regulation
[12/24/10] In a region that imports water, much goes to waste
[12/23/10] Desalination Project Too Expensive
[12/22/10] Nanoparticles promise cleaner, cheaper desalination
[12/22/10] Research to improve desalination
[12/22/10] Desalination, but at what cost?
[12/17/10] Part 3: Unlike Calif., Australia Has No Choice But to
Desalinate Their Sea Water
[12/16/10] Part 2: Desal No Silver Bullet for California's Water
Woes
[12/15/10] Re-Using 'Greywater': Next Step in Conservation?
[12/15/10] Part 1: Desal Boom Near for Arid California, but
Obstacles Remain
[12/15/10] Victorian households hit with soaring water prices
desperately seeking help (AUS)
[12/15/10] Tampa Bay Water: Idle desal plant saves money
[12/14/10] Swiftmud officials want to know why desal plant not
running (Florida)
[12/14/10] Carlsbad desalination plant survives another appeal
[12/13/10] Southwestern water outlook getting grimmer,
scientists say
[12/10/10] Panel Rules in Favor of Carlsbad Desal Plant
[12/9/10] Residents seek alternatives to desal plant
[12/9/10] New desal plant planned for Monterey Bay
[12/9/10] Desal not the best option for Santa Cruz
[12/8/10] Watching our Salt Intake
[12/8/10] Desalination demo plant opens for study
[12/7/10] Eat more sea salt, says expert (UAE)
[12/6/10] Water quick fix a long-term drain (AUS)
[12/5/10] Queensland scraps the desal plant sold as essential
[12/5/10] Gold Coast desal plant placed offline (AUS)
[12/4/10] New desal project unveiled
[12/4/10] Making do with little (Fiji)
[12/3/10] DRA Predicts Rate Shock for Monterey Desalination
Customers Due to Lack of CPUC Protection
[12/3/10] Marina desalination plant takes step forward
[12/3/10] PUC approves $300million Monterey Bay
desalination plant
[12/2/10] Monterey Peninsula desalination plant could skip
changes
[12/2/10] Forward Flow - State approves regional desal project
[12/1/10] Adelaide desalination plant to cost $130m 'at full
capacity' (AUS)
[11/30/10] Calera, Desal form Moss Landing Water
[11/29/10] Tax Revenue debate delays desal plant
[11/29/10] New Redondo Beach desalination plant to hold
open house
[11/28/10] Desalination on back burner for Marin after votes
[11/27/10] Drop CalAm now, save money later
[11/26/10] Peninsula desal plant at crossroads
[11/24/10] As You See It - Santa Cruz
[11/24/10] Massa. desal plant violated fed standard for E.Coli
[11/23/10] Electricity to push up water costs (AUS)
[11/21/10] This is no time to relax on conservation in Southern
California
[11/21/10] Dow desalination membrane gives better 2nd-pass
rejection
[11/21/10] Water grid could be drained (AUS)
[11/20/10] Stormwater bid to safeguard supply (AUS)
[11/20/10] Rainwater catchment workshops helping county
residents seize the storms
[11/18/10] Water district looks to crack down on Marin water
wasters
[11/18/10] Don't let politics dictate water discussions
[11/17/10] EPA tells states to consider rising ocean acidity
[11/17/10] Australia second worst for Greenhouse gases
[11/17/10] Desal plants won't test for high-risk bug (AUS)
[11/17/10] Graywater rebates going unused
[11/16/10] Binational desalination plans heat up
[11/14/10] Big plans for turning saltwater into fresh
[11/14/10] Editorial: A public project deserves public input
[11/12/10] Desal plant not protected from E.Coli (AUS)
[11/12/10] Environmental Report Approved for Proposed HB
Desalination Facility
[11/12/10] Officials Toast Desalination Facility
[11/11/10] Desal backers make case to PUC
[11/11/10] Seawater danger study ignored (AUS)
[11/11/10] Desal insanity will cripple us (AUS)
[11/10/10] Sewage flowing past desal plant (AUS)
[11/8/10] Desalination facility appealed to Coastal Commission
[11/5/10] Sewer or Sea? Where Will Water Come From?
[11/15/10] Major environmental problems hitting Dubai
[11/6/10] Mexican desalination plant to tender soon
[11/5/10] Tampa Bay Water could find new customer: Polk Co.
[11/4/10] With drilling window closed, Corps explores options
[11/3/10] Marin Desalination Plans Can Move Forward
[11/3/10] Loud and Clear: Marin Voters Want a Say on Desal
[11/3/10] Election Results: Marin & Contra Costa Counties
[11/3/10] Cambria voters like pro-desalination candidates
[11/2/10] MMWD: Incumbents win, Measure S trumps T in
desal fight
[10/31/10] Water bills 'to double again' (AUS)
[10/31/10] Marin water measures have statewide impact
[10/30/10] State panel approves Huntington Beach
desalination facility
[10/29/10] Desal sides to respond to PUC rulings
[10/28/10] UC Santa Cruz water case heads back to court
[10/28/10} Candidates vie in WRD, West Basin water board
races
[10/28/10] Dozens gets lifetime health benefits from small
water district
[10/29/10] State Panel to vote today on H.B. desal facility
[10/28/10] Group sues Monterey County Water Resources
Agency over polluted runoff
[10/27/10] Marin Elections Dominated by Water Issues
[10/27/10] Who sells desal by the sea shore?
[10/27/10] Desal funding costs us $212m (AUS)
[10/25/10] Carlsbad's objection stall desal talks
[10/24/10] Re-Using Water (Singapore)
[10/23/10] Queensland water bills soar as fat cats pocket huge
pay rises (AUS)
[10/23/10] Report Highlights Lack of Water Risk Disclosure in
Municipal Bonds
[10/23/10] Saudi Water Use 'Growing Exponentially', Higher
Prices Needed, Report Says
[10/22/10] Commission recommends changes to Monterey
desalination project agreement
[10/21/10] Desalination work halted (AUS)
[10/21/10] Desalination plant protest 20-10-10 (AUS)
[10/21/10] Yuma plant freshens up the water
[10/20/10] Marin Voice: Measure T is the citizen's choice
[10/20/10] Desal plant delays, cover-ups prompt inquiry (AUS)
[10/20/10] Confusion over competing Desal Measures
[10/18/10] Desal plants inflate household power bills (AUS)
[10/15/10] Coastal Commission asks Poseidon Resources for
more alternatives
[10/14/10] State Agency Considers Desalination Restoration
Proposal
[10/14/10] MP echoes calls for desal plant switch-off (AUS)
[10/14/10] Election: Water District Race a Repeat of Four
Years Ago
[10/13/10] Desalination plants lose $1 million a week (AUS)
[10/13/10] John V. Foley returns as chairman of Metropolitan
Water District Board of Directors
[10/12/10] Calif Coastal Commissioners Vote More For
Conservation
-Voting Guide (PDF)
[10/12/10] Desal plant a $32K a day waste (AUS)
[10/12/10] Experts discuss 'rain harvesting' in San Diego
[10/12/10] Misuse will drain Asia's water supply, experts say
[10/11/10] Not too late to stop the disaster that is our
desalination plant (AUS)
[10/9/10] Saudi Arabia urged to end water subsidies
[10/8/10] Marin Democrats and Republicans Agree: Vote Yes
on Measure T
[10/8/10] Building for a cantakerous planet (AUS)
[10/8/10] Desal plant cost could hit $24billion (AUS)
[10/7/10] Vic desal plant to cost $18 billion (AUS)
[10/6/10] Water Dept celebrates 100th Sustainable Lawn
Conversion
[10/4/10] Surface Chemistry of Reverse Osmosis Membranes
Slows Desalination
[10/4/10] Land of poor white trash approaching (AUS)
[10/4/10] Proposal would allow LADWP to delay rules
protecting ocean plants and animals
[10/2/10] Dueling over desal with two ballot measures
[10/2/10] Watershed moment for MMWD as four of five seats
heat up
[10/2/10] Water plans observe $330m go away down the drain
[9/29/10] Top US Desalination Experts Tackle Issues Behind
Lack of US Traction
[9/27/10] The desal cup runneth over with our cash (AUS)
[9/27/10] Army Corps starts drilling test wells at Cambria beach
[9/25/10] SA Water won't reveal desal standy costs (AUS)
[9/24/10] Feasability of desalination in Cambria under review
[9/24/10] Spring rains dampen desal sell (AUS)
[9/24/10] Secret police files given to desal firms (AUS)
[9/24/10] Why should Saudi Arabia ramp up natural gas
output? (Hint: desalination!)
[9/22/10] Rising Energy Demand hits Water Scarcity 'Choke
Point'
[9/22/10] City Council expressed support for water desal plant
[9/20/10] HB approves desalination plant
[9/17/10] Gov't desal figure misleading (AUS)
[9/17/10] Desal plant a $570m-a-year drain (AUS)
[9/15/10] Fact Check: The Real Price of Purified Sewage
[9/14/10] The Not-So-Obvious Costs of Desalination
[9/15/10] Santa Cruz City Council OKs study of desal design
[9/13/10] Santa Cruz City Council to weigh desal design
contract: Opponents believe voters should decide project's fate
[9/12/10] Power and water costs to rise $600 (AUS)
[9/11/10] Southern California gets wastewater reuse and
desalination grants
[9/8/10] Bogus polls emerge from sea bottom before Poseidon
hearing
[9/8/10] Poseidon desalination plants gets H.B.'s OK
[9/7/10] Poseidon: The Garbage Barge of the Desal Industry
[9/7/10] California's next one million acre-feet of water
[9/3/10] Desalination plant back to H.B. council tonight
[9/2/10] Multiplying the Yield of an Oasis
[8/31/10] MMWD eyes layoffs, pay cuts, furloughs to balance
budget
[8/29/10] We don't need a desalination plant in Victoria (AUS)
[8/27/10] Letters: Live with the environment
[8/26/10] Flap over power plants' cooling heats up in Capitol
[8/25/10] MMWD adopts its own desal measure
[8/25/10] WATER: Hold the spending, Water Authority says
[8/25/10] Tampa Bay Way desal plant isn't running often
enough for Swiftmud
[8/25/10] L.A. officials launch campaign to roll back state
environmental rule
[8/23/10] State water advice: Back to basics is best bet to save
Florida's water
[8/22/10] Santa Rosa Creek Natural Preserve news (Cambria)
[8/20/10] Special Report: Is water desalination a long-term
drain?
[8/20/10] Judge says UC Santa Cruz can apply to receive more
water for expansion plans
[8/20/10] Pros, cons of privatization
[8/19/10] AZ Desalination Plant Pumping Thousands of
Gallons of Clean Water
[8/17/10] Editorial: Stop playing catch-up, Victoria (AUS)
[8/16/10] Judge denies 2008 request to halt Cambria
desalination plant
[8/15/10] Marin Voice: Conservation is working for Marin
[8/15/10] High water bills in Queensland without a drop
[8/13/10] Desal America plans to bring jobs, portable desal
stations to Moss Landing
[8/13/10] Desal Project on Way
[8/12/10] Marin Voice: MMWD measure is right approach
[8/12/10] Water bond delay: When a loss is still a victory
[8/12/10] HuffPost Editorial: Is Desalination the Answer?
[8/10/10] IROC examines San Diego water rates, desalination
issues
[8/7/10] Ed Mitchell: Ratepayers need voice about water
[8/6/10] MMWD's measure would be costly
[8/6/10] Citing health, Cambria desalination backer backs out
of services district race
[8/6/10] Desalination issue sparks intense interest in Marin
water board race
[8/2/10] Backers, critics make heated arguments on Monterey
Peninsula desalination proposal
[7/30/10] Probolsky+Register+Poseidon=Bogus Desal Poll
[7/28/10] Dueling ballot measures over Marin desalination
[7/27/10] Marin board approves own desalination measure
[7/26/10] Monterey Peninsula mayors seek expanded water
role
[7/24/10] Dueling desalination measures might end up on
November ballot
[7/23/10] Marin Voice: Desal fears bubbling to surface
[7/23/10] County Water Authority May Buy Water From
Carlsbad Desalination Plant
[7/23/10] San Diego County water use down nearly 13%
[7/22/10] More voters back H.B. desalination plant
[7/22/10] Water Board tentatively OKs buying desalinated
supply
[7/22/10] Water Authority OKs conditions for negotiating desal
deal
[7/21/10] Former HB mayor to address desalination issues in
Redondo
[7/21/10] Residents voice distaste of RT water (British Virgins)
[7/21/10] How Desalination Works: TreeHugger Report
[7/21/10] Draft Poseidon Desalination Contract Goes to San
Diego County water Authority
[7/20/10] San Diego County agency to mull draft desalination
contract
[7/20/10] New membrane makes fresh water from sea and
sewage feasible (forward osmosis)
[7/19/10] Report: County Must Diversify Water Sources
- San Diego's Water Sources: Assessing the Options
- this report ranks desal low on list of options
[7/18/10] In a Time of Conservation, a Handful of san Diego
Water Officials Increase Use
[7/16/10] Desal plant could be averted (AUS)
[7/16/10] San Diego water use down 11 percent
[7/15/10] Editorial: Conservation trumps the big machine
[7/15/10] Water users holding key to desalination plants
[7/14/10] Enviromentalists fighting Cambria desalt plant
[7/14/10] San Luis Obsipo County lawsuit challenges
desalination testing in Cambria
[7/11/10] Spotswood: Local voters again show they want their
say
[7/11/10] As We See It: Every drop counts in water
conservation efforts
[7/10/10] Arid Australia Sips Seawater, but at a Cost
[7/10/10] Desal fix puts price to water torture (AUS)
[7/7/10] Water district delays response to ballot measure
[7/7/10] Desalination Spending to Double, with US Among Top
5 Markets
[7/5/10] Monterey area looks to sea for drinking water
[7/2/10] Renewable Energy Key to Making Desalination Work
for Water-Crunched Countries
[6/30/10] Monterey Peninsula water ratepayers talk cost to
Public Utilities Commission
[6/29/10] Desalination plan gets hot reception at hearing
[6/28/10] Desalination Nation (energy-water nexus)
[6/27/10] Monterey County residents to weigh in on
desalination plan
[6/25/10] Upfront: Taking the 'plan' out of plant
[6/24/10] SD Water Authority votes for desalination
[6/24/10] SD County Water Authority to explore doing
desalination deal
[6/24/10] The ocean is probably going to be the Peninsula's
main water supply within six years. Get used to it.
[6/23/10] Agencies ask Water Authority to save desal project
[6/23/10] Some Victorians to see water bills to soar (AUS)
[6/22/10] Poseidon Desal Deal? Govt. May Rescue Junk Bond
Project
[6/18/10] Desalination initiative has enough votes to go on
Marin ballot
[6/15/10] LADWP GM Austin Beutner Presents Strategic Plan
[6/14/10] Hamilton: A better way to take salt out of seawater
[6/14/10] Poseidon Resources' Carlsbad desal facility
subsidies would be withheld as a result of proposed lawsuit
[6/13/10] Marin Voice: The right to vote on desalination
[6/13/10] Editorial: Water Agency Girds for Battle
[6/12/10] City manager, mayor stress importance of staying in
desalination
[6/11/10] Desal Plant Inching Towards Reality in Huntington
Beach
[6/11/10] WATER: SD County Water Authority ponders subsidy
for desal plant
[6/11/10] County water board to sue wholesaler
[6/11/10] Bay area utility shut downs could lead to rate
increases
[6/10/10] Desalination: Solution or a Problem?
[6/10/10] To desalinate or conserve? Good question
[6/9/10] Desal critics turn in 17,800 signatures
[6/9/10] Water chiefs testify at desal hearing
[6/9/10] Hold the Salt: UCLA engineers develop revolutionary
new desalination membrane
[6/8/10] Water Treatment Membranes Overflow into New
Growth Markets
[6/8/10] Peninsula desal proposel goes before PUC
[6/4/10] State pushing long-term water conservation habits
[6/4/10] Desalination opponents deliver signatures for ballot
[6/4/10] Marin County desalination plan may face vote
[6/3/10] Californians willing to save water, poll finds
[6/2/10] No extension for comment on desalination plant
[6/1/10] Outsider role seems to suit environmental attorney
[5/31/10] UK's First Water Desalination Plant Opens in London
[5/31/10] Time to come clean on the cost of water (Sydney,
AUS)
[5/29/10] US government funding desalination research
[5/29/10] Vanishing partners don't deter desalination plant
[5/28/10] A New Water Market: Think of it as Liquid Gold
[5/28/10] Water, Water, Everywhere: But is it Enough?
[5/27/10] Viewpoint: Test well concerns not adequately
addressed
[5/28/10] Seawater may flow to San Marcos
[5/26/10] Water plant developer wants payment pledge
[5/26/10] Loner Palm Coast (FL) Drips Desal to Fraction of
Original Plan; Water Costs Would Rise Sharply
[5/26/10] Coquina Coast (FL) desalination project downsizes
as cities drop out
[5/26/10] Water officials tout desalination plant proposal at
Chamber of Commerce gathering
[5/25/10] Sucking Up: AES Must Modernize, but what about
Poseidon?
[5/24/10] Desal plant allows Cal Am to shut down Carmel River
wells
[5/22/10] Brockton stuck with desal plant contract until 2022
[5/21/10] Brockton pays $4million for mostly unused water:
Cost stems from 20-year contract with Aquaria desalination
plant
[5/21/10] Agency okays agreement with Camp Pendleton for
desal plant
[5/20/10] 'Responsible' Desalination Comes to Dana Point
[5/20/10] State panel greenlights desal tests
[5/20/10] Controversial HB water desal plant goes for another
permit
[5/20/10] Poseidon Desal Plant Making a Comeback in
Huntington Beach
[5/19/10] Poseidon goes for another permit
[5/19/10] Loretta Sanchez: Poseidon Not Viable
[5/18/10] Poseidon EIR up for review and city council members
mingle with their corporate god
[5/18/10] Monterey Bay sanctuary issues desal guide
[5/17/10] Test wells approved for Cambria
[5/16/10] Desalination affected by California powerplant ruling
[5/14/10] Deep Dive on Desalination
[5/13/10] Testing the Waters (Dana Point desal)
[5/12/10] Monterey:Desal workshops continue today
[5/11/10] Poseidon's Desalinization Plant: Dream Water Supply
or Draining the Pacific and Taxpayers?
[5/11/10] Desal Proponents Outline Costs, Elements Missing
from Estimates
[5/10/10] Desal Timeline (Poseidon & Carlsbad)
[5/10/10] Desalination Project Open House Set at Doheny
[5/10/10] CCC to rule on Cambria desalination plant studies
[5/9/10] Cambria desal plans advance, with conditions
[5/9/10] Judge to weigh cost numbers for desal plant
[5/8/10] US Navy Pumps More Money into High Efficiency
Desalination Technology
[5/7/10] Coquina Coast desal ask for $ commitment, Bunnell
backs out
[5/6/10] Panel staff says OK desal test - if...
[5/5/10] Editorial: High Costs Inevitable in desal plant project
[5/3/10] Desal Bailout?
[5/2/10] UA-led team keeping eye on Cienega de Santa Clara
[5/1/10] Surfrider Sues to Protect Fish from California's First
Big Desalination Plant
[4/29/10] Water Agencies revive long-dormant Yuma Desalting
Plant
[4/29/10] Bunnell Bails from Billion $ Desalination Band
[4/27/10] Borden: Reject the Huntington Beach desal plant
myths
[5/3/10] RESPONSE LETTER FROM SURF CITY VOICE!
[4/26/10] The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates,
Usage in 30 U.S. Cities
[4/23/10] Desalination plant could kill countless marine life
[4/22/10] Viewpoint: Mixed messages on impact of desal intake
at creek mouth
[4/20/10] WATER: Pendelton desal plan goes to Water
Authority
[4/19/10] US Urban Residents Cut Water Usage; Utilities are
Forced to Raise Prices
[4/19/10] Desalination Plant Under Construction at SEA Lab
[4/18/10] Editorial: MMWD can't make up its mind on desal
[4/13/10] Marin County's Water Grab
[4/8/10] CA's First Full-Scale Desal Plant Lets Residents Drink
Ocean Water
[4/7/10] Coastal California City Turns to Desalination to
Quench Its Thirst
[4/7/10] MMWD halts work on desalination project, for now
[4/6/10] Desal Agreement Makes Chumps of Monterey
Peninsula Ratepayers
[3/31/10] Water rates likely to double for Cal Am customers
[3/19/10] Tampa Bay Water wants to increase rates 8 percent
[2/26/10] Cambria desalination testing delayed
[1/29/10] Geever: Investors beware of Poseidon's Carlsbad
desalination plant
[1/14/10] Reznik: Desalination should be a last resort in our
water portfolio
[1/11/10] Desal and 'Carbon'ated Water
[1/10/10] CARLSBAD: Lawsuit dropped against desal project
[1/8/10] Monterey desalination plant moves forward
[1/4/10] Looking at 2010: Marco Gonzalez and the
Environmental Court
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