One focuses on the new Carlsbad desal plant - the largest in the Western Hemisphere. It hits on the problems environmentalists have with desal: too much energy and too much damage to marine life. Surfrider's Joe Geever says the Carlsbad plant, for instance, would end up "killing everything that floats" near it. Camp Pendleton and Huntington Beach have desal plants in the works.
The other reviews current water supply problems and says lawmakers have promised to tackle water once they have sorted out the budget mess. Ideas being considered:
- Build a peripheral canal
- Build more storage facilities to capture the water that, due to climate change, now falls as rain rather than snow
- Improve the current supply by better managing groundwater and fixing leaky pipes and other existing infrastructure problems
- Use more conservation measures. Says an Association of California Water Agencies spokesperson: "This is a forever change, that customers will have to start internalizing."
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