Tom Sephton, the president of Sephton Water Technology, gave a presentation about water quality restoration at the Salton Sea during the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 25. … To increase the availability of local distilled water, Sephton proposed purifying and selling salt from the Salton Sea to reduce the water’s salinity. … Phase 1 of this project will be a commercial demonstration of technology, according to Sephton. Up until now, he said Cal Energy has been doing a pilot scale project, which he wants to expand. Sephton proposed building a demonstration plant to distill the water and concentrate the salt brine. 

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