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What? We passed a proposition last election cycle for $7.5 billion in water measures. https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014) https
by mmanfrin 10y ago
What? We passed a proposition last election cycle for $7.5 billion in water measures.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond...
The legislature also passed laws regarding the use of water and monitoring:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB88 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
Water recycling plants are coming online that can recycle actual wastewater:
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26160300/california-drought-san-joses-new-high-tech-water http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26160300/california-dr...
Less than a year ago, the largest desalination plant in the country went online:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
But please, keep telling people how little we're investing in to this.
- Retric 10y agoThat plant has less than 20% of libia's desalination capacity and 6% of Saudi Arabia. There are 16,000 desalination plants world wide the US has less than 5% of the worlds capacity much of which sits unused. Sure there are good reasons for this, but US water use is still incredibly wasteful.