San Diego seeking development of desalination facility
Making drinking water from the ocean may prove to be nearly three times as expensive for the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA). In its new fiscal policy for its $3 billion capital improvement program, the SDCWA proposed $668 million in the budget for a desalination facility that would produce about 80 million gallons per day by 2015. The county water authority has been seeking the development of such a facility, where ocean water is purified to drinking standards, but the Poseidon Resources Corp. currently has a 60-year leasehold on the site where the water authority needs to build its facility. But, Poseidon wants to build a facility there, too. Both county and Poseidon officials say the county sought disclosure of engineering reports regarding desalination technology, and Poseidon does not want to hand them over http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=312&ncid=312&e=3&u=/sddt/20040705/lo_sddt/countysdesalinationprojectmorecostlythanprivatepla