Santa Cruz needs more water if it is going to comfortably grow as planned. A new policy aimed at future water-supply projects keeps a desalination plant on the table, a controversial strategy with a long history in Santa Cruz.
Water bills in San Diego are about to go up. That increase is due in part to planned upgrades at the Carlsbad Desalination Plant, estimated to cost $274 million.
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The California Coastal Commission last month unanimously signed off on the Doheny Ocean Desalination Plant in Orange County.The approval of the $140 million project comes after the panel rejected a proposed bigger, $1.4 billion desalination plant up the coast in Huntington Beach earlier this year. In addition, commission staff have recommended the approval of another plant in