[GPSCC-chat] DeSal in our Future?

[Caroline Yacoub]

You know more about this than any of the rest of us. As a member of the County Council, I ask you to write a letter, which I am sure we will all support and sign.Caroline 


     On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 10:18 AM, Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net> wrote:
   

   Supervisor Cortese has, according to today's Mercury News, once again raised the issue of having a Desalination facility as the solution for future droughts.  
 
 Some thoughts:
 
 As population grows, along with it's demand for food, at some point desalination will become necessary. 
 
 Of all the areas of climate change adaptation, desalination is the one that is most likely to be made environmentally acceptable by technological advances.  In particular, nano-technology filters to reduce energy requirements and industrial use of the waste solutions from desalination process (one company has done a pilot project to make cement in this way) all reduce the ecological impact.  One other project that I know of uses solar energy to desalinate agricultural runoff, returning water for irrigation and removing residues of pesticides and fertilizers from the environment. 
 
 Should Green Party of Santa Clara County take a position on Cortese's idea?  If so, I believe it should not be  a knee jerk rejection but one based on sound ecological science.  Should we draft a letter to the Board of Supervisors with a copy to the Mercury News?
 
 Wes
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