Water district sued over desalination plant proposed for South Bay
The location of West Basin Municipal Water District’s proposed ocean water desalination plant, on the border between Manhattan Beach and El Segundo. Photo An environmental organization has filed a lawsuit against the West Basin Municipal Water District over its November approval of a large seawater desalination plant proposed along the coast just north of Manhattan Beach’s border with El Segundo, alleging that the water district ignored significant environmental issues in its assessment of the project. “We refuse to let West Basin move forward with a project knowing that ratepayers, our climate and marine environment will pay the price: a price that we, quite frankly, cannot afford in the face of climate change and the decline of our world’s oceans,” Bruce Reznik, executive director of Los Angeles Waterkeeper, which filed the suit, said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, follows the district board’s 4-1 vote on Nov. 18 to approve an Environmental Impact Report for the project, which would produce up to 20 million gallons per day of drinking water. In a statement in response to questions about the lawsuit, West Basin said that the EIR…
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