The Daily Journal/Bay City News Service, 4/7/15. "Santa Clara supervisor touts seawater filtration and avoiding 'water wars'"
| And the plan includes new labeling for bottled water |
"Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors president Dave Cortese said
Monday that a regional system used to tap desalinated seawater in the
Bay Area should be an option to bolster the county’s vulnerable water
supply and avoid “water wars” with other counties.
...."... The city and county of San Francisco, if they’re desperate for water, at some point, do we still get Hetch Hetchy down here? That’s one-third of our water supply in Santa Clara County.”“We want to head those kind of arguments off,” he said. “There have been enough water wars in the state over the years without us getting into a water war now.”
The real solution is for governments in the Bay Area to get
together, perhaps through the formation of a new agency, to coordinate
on desalination technology, split the costs fairly, solve the
environmental issues of cleaning seawater and get the facilities up and
running, he said.The cost of water for consumers will likely have to increase to
pay for it, which is better than the alternative of shortages of
drinking water, he said." Read more.
Note: photograph from 620 ABC/Freya Michie, 1/13/10, Perth, AU.
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