Thomas Elias - Syndicated Columnist.
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink…”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
The reality confronting millions of Californians as they cope with yet another lengthy episode in a seemingly endless series of droughts is that — like Coleridge’s mariner — this state has billions of acre-feet of water clearly visible every day in the form of the Pacific Ocean and its many bays and estuaries. 

​But that’s briny salt water, containing an array of minerals that make it almost as inaccessible today as it was to that parched, fictitious sailor of 200 years ago. 

But it doesn’t have to stay that way. As the price of water goes up, desalinating Pacific waters becomes ever more enticing and it will become more so if the price of taking salts and other impurities out of salt water falls. In short, if the rising price of fresh water ever comes to match a falling cost for purified sea water, expect desalination to begin on a large scale in California.

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KGO San Francisco. SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) - As California faces a fourth dry year, experts are taking a serious look at desalinating seawater as a technology that could make a real difference in the drought. With salt water on three sides of the Bay Area, officials say it's a very real a possibility. 

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Chamber Honors Key Carlsbad Desalination Project Team Leader

Carlsbad, CA - Senior Vice President Peter MacLaggan of Poseidon Water was named Businessperson of the Year by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce last week. The award, which was announced at the Chamber's Sea of Opportunity 2015 Annual Business Awards Dinner, recognizes macLaggan's leadership on the Carlsbad Desalination Project. 

The South Orange County Economic report is a unique economic research report that focuses specifically on the cities and planned communities within the South County Region that contribute over $25.6 billion to the Orange County economy. 

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Brown urges diversifying water options, including desalination, in State of the State address 

​SACRAMENTO, CA – In response to Governor Jerry Brown’s State of the State address, Poseidon Water issued the following statement in support of the Governor’s call for desalination. In his address, Governor Brown emphasizes there is no single solution to the state’s water problems and references the framework for success laid out in Proposition I (The Water Bond) and the more recent California Water Action Plan, and specifically called for more desalination in California. ​

The Orange County Water District’s board of directors will consider this evening whether the district should formally enter negotiations with Poseidon Resources to purchase the 56,000 acre-feet of water to be produced each year by its planned Huntington Beach Ocean Desalination Project.
Opponents of the project almost certainly will make their presence felt at the OCWD board meeting in Fountain Valley. But that should not dissuade the 10-member board from directing staff to work out a water purchase agreement with Poseidon, a private developer. 

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Carlsbad, CA – Poseidon Water (“Poseidon”) has announced that IDE Technologies (“IDE”) has selected Protec Arisawa (“Protec”) and Dow Water & Process Solutions (“Dow”) to provide the pressure vessels and reverse osmosis membranes for the Carlsbad Desalination Project. Both key elements of the desalination process, the membranes act as the filter that separates salt and other impurities from water molecules to create clean and fresh drinking water, and the pressure vessels house these membranes.

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Project on Track to Deliver up to 50 Million Gallons of Water per Day by Early 2016
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Carlsbad, CA – City leaders, San Diego County Water Authority board officers, IDE Technologies, NRG Energy and Poseidon Water executives visited the Carlsbad Desalination Project today to mark the first anniversary of construction on the Western Hemisphere’s largest seawater desalination plant, which is more than 25 percent complete. 

SAN DIEGO - The ground breaking Carlsbad Desalination Project, under development in North Coastal San Diego County by Poseidon Water, was recently honored as a 2013 Bond Buyer Deal of the Year Finalist. "The Carlsbad Desalination Project is an excellent example of how complicated, yet critical, projects can succeed when innovative financing approaches are explored," said Andrew Kingman, Poseidon Water Chief Financial Officer.  "Poseidon is honored to be recognized by a distinguished leader in the municipal bond industry, and we look forward to presenting our latest project to the California Coastal Commission this week."

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