President Donald Trump’s top Colorado River official visited San Diego Wednesday to say the president sees “real potential” in developing more plants that make drinking water using the ocean – right off the California coast.
That’s a problem for environmentalists, who say desalination plants are environmentally harmful, energy intensive and costly.
“Imagine a future where a string of six, or even a dozen desalination facilities are operating along the California coast providing ample amounts of beautiful, clean, clear, fresh water in an environmentally benign way to serve not just California communities but to be shared at a reasonable price with… sister states to the east,” said Scott Cameron, acting commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, standing in front of the Carlsbad desalination plant.
He was there to sign an agreement with other major Colorado River negotiators from Arizona, Nevada and California to explore how states might buy and sell water across state lines…..
