The largest desalination plant in the US is in San Diego. Experts have said the huge costs and ecological risks mean these plants might not work nationwide. Other options, such as water recycling and ...

In December 2015, during California’s most recent drought, Poseidon Water opened a seawater desalination facility in Carlsbad which has since produced over 22 billion gallons of high-quality, ...

LOS ANGELES — The San Diego County Water Authority battled nearly 10 years to get environmental approvals and the right financing package to build a desalination plant. The $1 billion Carlsbad ...

SAN DIEGO — Representatives from San Diego County and Poseidon Water held a celebration Thursday for the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant producing its 40 billionth gallon of drinking ...

Desalination projects in the San Diego area could get millions in federal funding under a bill Rep. Mike Levin introduced Tuesday. The Desalination Development Act would provide $260 million over five ...

Water bills in San Diego are about to go up, and that increase is due in part to planned upgrades at the Carlsbad Desalination Plant. Those upgrades are estimated to cost $274 million. The San Diego ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. California is emerging from one of the worst droughts in its modern history, a dry spell that ...

Chris Stiedemann of Poseidon Water looks over the giant filers that remove microscopic impurities from the seawater. Photo by Chris Jennewein It is no secret that I wasn’t the biggest fan of the ...

Desalination continues to grow in importance as a drinking water source for the San Diego region with the doubling of capacity at a Sweetwater Authority plant in National City. State and local ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Water Authority Friday announced it will cease work on a seawater desalination plant at Camp Pendleton because of excessive permitting and cost hurdles by the ...

Today marks the grand opening of the first major desalination facility to be built in California in recent years. The plant is also largest in the Western Hemisphere. Today marks the grand opening of ...

Take a tour of the Carlsbad Desalination Plant. By Jill Cowan Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, just down the coast from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant.Credit...Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times ...