Letters to the Editor 4-26-18
LA isn’t Dubai Dear ER: I must take issue with Russ Lesser’s article regarding the proposed El Segundo desalination plant (“Fact checking arguments against desalination plant,” ER April 19, 2018). He opens with the statement that a lot of disinformation is going around about this proposed facility. Well, there is a level of disinformation in Lesser’s article as well. While it is true that the LA Basin is technically a desert, and that draughts will happen and are becoming more frequent as Lesser writes, we are not Dubai, Oman, Jordan, or Israel. In those climates and with their lack of other sources of water, pulling salt water from their neighboring seas and desalinating is perhaps their only recourse. Desalination is a last resort, and we aren’t anywhere near that stage yet, especially when we have the alternative of expanding wastewater recycling that is already being done to a great degree at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant. Millions of gallons of wastewater are reclaimed and sanitized daily at this facility and are pumped into the Santa Monica Bay. That is water that if further treated, a level of treatment for which this plant is capable, could be used as an additional…
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