Camarillo’s desalter facility begins supplying drinking water
Camarillo’s North Pleasant Valley Groundwater Desalter began producing drinking water earlier this month, diminishing the city’s reliance on imported water. The reverse-osmosis desalter, located at 2727 Somis Road, converts unusable brackish groundwater into 1 million gallons of high-quality potable water per day, city staff said in a news release. The plant will be producing about 4 million gallons per day when it is operating at full capacity in two months. By comparison, residents and businesses used about 6 million gallons of water per day on average last year, city spokesperson Michelle Glueckert D’Anna said in an email. … Diminishing groundwater has plagued the city since the 1990s, causing the city to rely more on imported water.