GREEN SHOOTS IN CALIFORNIA
- From: Vol 9, Issue 4 (April 2008)
- Category: Need to know
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- Related Companies: California Public Utilies
* Have we seen a change of heart on desalination at the Pacific Institute? After publishing a critique of desalination in California under the title “Desalination with a grain of salt”, the institute established itself as the intellectual leader of the opposition to desalination in the state (there have been numerous less intellectual followers).
Speaking at the Water Industry Summit in New York earlier this month, the institute’s director Peter Gleick put out a conciliatory hand towards the desalination industry: “Maybe we have to think about conservation and desalination as an alternative to taking more water from the San Joaquin delta,” he conceded. At the same meeting, California’s Public Utilities Commissioner John ...
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