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Even building desalination plants is doomed by NIMBYs wielding environmental laws and the costal commission to block any project

• NewJazz 1y ago
  Have you tried building a subsurface well? Last project didn't want to build one even though the desal plant would otherwise have negatively impacted local wildlife, including marine animals in and around sensitive estuary habitat. That and brine are legitimate concerns. Also cost. The desal project in Huntington Beach was projected to increase local water prices.
  • diordiderot 1y ago
    > Have you tried building a subsurface well? Yes. And they're all being rapidly depleted
    • NewJazz 1y ago
      That's not what a subsurface well is. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B978012809240800006X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801...