[GPSCC-chat] DeSal in our Future?

[Paul Engstrom]

I agree with Caroline's suggestion that Wes Rolley draft  Green Party
desalination plans to Mr Cortese with copies to Silicon Valley Rare
Fruit Growers Org and California Native Plant Society,Santa Clara
County Chapter, asking their supportive messages  to Mr Cortese..

This might create/stimulate more general interest of these and similar
environmental protective organizations  to support  this Green Party
efforts  and  even possibly lead to membership as means to promote
their many similar goals.

Paul Engstrom
Green Member



On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> wrote:
> 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
> --
> "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then
> you are wasting your time on this Earth" - Roberto Clemente
>
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