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This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary".

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary". Wow! $97.5 Billion surplus (estimated costs was $1.4 Billion for this plant) and still this couldn't be passed? This will not end well. California has spent most of the last 15 years in drought conditions. Its normal wet season that runs from late fall to the end of winter was especially dry this year and as a result 95% of the state is classified as in severe drought. 0: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amid-drought-california-desalination-project-crossroads-84662737 https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amid-drought-california-...
- codefreeordie 4y ago
  > Some on Thursday also debated the extent of the local demand for the desalinated water. Orange County has an ample groundwater basin and recycles wastewater, making the region less dependent on imported water than San Diego. The commission also argues that it would be "cheaper" to simply order additional mandatory conservation than to build new infrastructure. It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda
  - Melting_Harps 4y ago
    > It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda It's worse than that, they even don't understand that economics behind this: Carlsbad is on track to pay it's expenses on Poseidon exactly because they're supplying other counties, thus proving it's a profitable business venture. The salt/brine is an issue, but consumption restrictions alone aren't enough when droughts have been going on for 15+ years, and reservoirs are depleting their levels. I agree conservation should take place, and the fact that their isn't water reclamation infrastructure for those wet years is a f'ing crime! But taking this amount of risk in a (rare) time of surplus is insanity. Having spent most of my time as an adult in OC I'm dissapointed, but not surprised; this kind of vapid and short sighted decision making is how they allowed SONGS to just store it's spent nuclear material on-site after the decommissioned it. Missing the point of why it was such in the first place. This is exactly the kind of non-sense why I refuse to go back.
    - codefreeordie 4y ago
      I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind.
      - Melting_Harps 4y ago
        > I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind. I'm sad to leave it behind every time I visit, it's my home after all, but I realized several years ago that I'm more longing more for a period (90s California was magical albeit extremely precarious) more than the geographic location itself, which as you mentioned comes with the people who run the place.
arinlen 4y ago
> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary". Helpful link to a recent submission to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392912

> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary". Wow! $97.5 Billion surplus (estimated costs was $1.4 Billion for this plant) and still this couldn't be passed? This will not end well. California has spent most of the last 15 years in drought conditions. Its normal wet season that runs from late fall to the end of winter was especially dry this year and as a result 95% of the state is classified as in severe drought. 0: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amid-drought-california-desalination-project-crossroads-84662737 https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amid-drought-california-...

codefreeordie 4y ago
> Some on Thursday also debated the extent of the local demand for the desalinated water. Orange County has an ample groundwater basin and recycles wastewater, making the region less dependent on imported water than San Diego. The commission also argues that it would be "cheaper" to simply order additional mandatory conservation than to build new infrastructure. It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda It's worse than that, they even don't understand that economics behind this: Carlsbad is on track to pay it's expenses on Poseidon exactly because they're supplying other counties, thus proving it's a profitable business venture. The salt/brine is an issue, but consumption restrictions alone aren't enough when droughts have been going on for 15+ years, and reservoirs are depleting their levels. I agree conservation should take place, and the fact that their isn't water reclamation infrastructure for those wet years is a f'ing crime! But taking this amount of risk in a (rare) time of surplus is insanity. Having spent most of my time as an adult in OC I'm dissapointed, but not surprised; this kind of vapid and short sighted decision making is how they allowed SONGS to just store it's spent nuclear material on-site after the decommissioned it. Missing the point of why it was such in the first place. This is exactly the kind of non-sense why I refuse to go back.
  - codefreeordie 4y ago
    I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind.
    - Melting_Harps 4y ago
      > I am leaving California next week, and I'm not sad to he leaving the morons who run the place behind. I'm sad to leave it behind every time I visit, it's my home after all, but I realized several years ago that I'm more longing more for a period (90s California was magical albeit extremely precarious) more than the geographic location itself, which as you mentioned comes with the people who run the place.

arinlen 4y ago

> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary". Helpful link to a recent submission to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392912