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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. <br>
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Some thoughts:<br>
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As population grows, along with it's demand for food, at some point
desalination will become necessary. <br>
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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. <br>
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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?<br>
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Wes<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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