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I'm curious about why SCAG has failed to plan for this disaster while the much smaller San Diego county has managed to get a desalination plant up and running h

I'm curious about why SCAG has failed to plan for this disaster while the much smaller San Diego county has managed to get a desalination plant up and running https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 https://nyti.ms/3yuTUz4 From what I can tell this is the only desal plant on the West Coast which seems crazy.

cagey 4y ago
"The project to build a desalination plant in San Diego County, California commenced in 1993 after five years of drought."[1] "Before 2008, San Diego County historically had been a Republican stronghold."[2] [1] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba... [2] first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County