MONTEREY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On November 17, 2022, the California Coastal Commission (Commission) supported its staff recommendation and approved a development permit for intake slant wells ...

When the largest seawater desalination facility in the U.S. officially opened in 2015, it initially relied on cooling water drawn through the Encina Power Station. Once the power station stopped ...

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Officials from Laguna Beach’s two water districts are intent on moving forward with a proposed desalination plant in Dana Point. The Laguna Beach County Water District commissioners and board of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two buoys mark the location of intake and discharge currently used by a gas-powered unit at the AES Huntington Beach Energy Center ...

MONTEREY — California American Water has shifted its plans for a desalination plant on the shores of Marina, announcing it will now seek to build the project in multiple phases. “Phasing the Monterey ...

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data gathered from boreholes drilled along California’s Central Coast shows an alternative way of collecting seawater for desalination may be feasible.

The world's freshwater is vanishing. Droughts are spreading, aquifers are running dry, and the United Nations has flagged a natural resources crisis as one of the top-10 global threats in its 2024 ...

Desalination is the process of converting seawater into potable water by removing salt and other minerals. Although rudimentary forms of desalination have been used since antiquity, only in the ...

Although water is often scarce for human consumption and agriculture, this planet is three-quarters covered by the stuff. The problem is getting the salt out, and this is normally done by the Earth’s ...