Clear, pure drinking water, the finished product, at the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, Jan. 25, 2023. The plant went into service in 2015 and produces 50 million gallons per day, supplying drinking water for 400,000 people, or about 10 percent of San Diego County's population.
Clear, pure drinking water gets pumped through these pipes at Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, Jan. 25, 2023. The plant went into service in 2015 and produces 50 million gallons per day, supplying drinking water for 400,000 people, or about 10 percent of San Diego County's population.
Maintenance work in the reverse osmosis building at the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, where dissolved salt and other minerals are separated from the water, in more than 2,000 pressure vessels containing 16,000 reverse osmosis membranes, Jan. 25, 2023.
Oscar Rodriguez, who was among the environmental justice activists to successfully block development of a desalination plant in the coastal community of Huntington Beach, Calif., talks about the campaign during an interview in nearby Santa Ana, Jan. 25, 2023. More than 100 million gallons of seawater would have been pumped into the plant, to create 50 million gallons of drinkable water, but also pump millions of gallons of concentrated brine into the ocean. Rodriguez was most concerned about the possibility of water rate hikes on communities of modest income.
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