Robert Mueller Las Vegas
June 12, 2026 - 9:00 pm
Desalination plants are the solution to the Southwest h2o crisis, and the archetypal 1 should beryllium built is connected the Sea of Cortez successful Mexico. By treaty, Mexico is guaranteed 1.5-million-acre feet of h2o from the Colorado River. The Sea of Cortez is connected to the Pacific Ocean and is filled with brackish water. If the United States helped Mexico physique a desalination works similar the 1 successful Carlsbad, California, it would springiness Mexico a unafraid root of caller h2o and trim the magnitude of h2o it needs from the Colorado River.
That would beryllium portion of the solution. Long term, arsenic Scott Cameron, acting committee of the Bureau of Reclamation, has said, “Imagine … a drawstring of six oregon adjacent a twelve desal facilities operating on the California coast” (June 5 Review-Journal). It makes nary consciousness to transport h2o hundreds of miles to the San Diego and Los Angeles areas erstwhile some cities are connected the Pacific Ocean.
While California has the Pacific Ocean, the remainder of the states connected the Colorado River basin are critically babelike connected the Colorado. But California has refused to physique immoderate much desalination plants. It’s going to beryllium up to the national authorities to unit them to bash so.
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