Blog: A straw in the ocean
In some of the most arid places around the world, more than 16,000 seawater desalination systems enable countries from Saudi Arabia to Israel, Morocco to Australia, to remove salt from ocean water to generate fresh drinking water. Well before before California entered its driest period on record, Gov. Gavin Newsom ’89 has supported building a second major coastal desalination plant as a partial solution to the Golden State’s water woes.
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- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: News release - Corps joins partners to ‘open the valve’ on new desalination facility