Opinion: Why desalination should be a California water priority
If the climate crisis is coming, the water crisis is already here. As rice fields were fallowed in California, Lake Mead water levels almost sunk so low that Hoover Dam could no longer generate power … Thirty percent of the world population will face water shortages of some kind by 2025. … The water crisis will only be solved if we realize the once quixotic vision of desalination, turning seawater into freshwater. Today, roughly 18,000 desalination plants produce around 1% of the world’s freshwater, with production concentrated in regions of high water scarcity such as Israel and Australia. … The desalination process is so energy-intensive that desalination plants often require carbon-emitting power plants right next door, which can increase costs up to 10 times higher than groundwater.
-Written by Dr. Grayson Zulauf, a clean energy entrepreneur and CEO of Resonant Link.Related article:
