{"id":1495388,"date":"2022-05-28T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495388"},"modified":"2022-05-28T07:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:31:04","slug":"after-nixing-50-million-gallon-a-day-desalination-plant-california-demands-residents-use-less-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-nixing-50-million-gallon-a-day-desalination-plant-california-demands-residents-use-less-water\/","title":{"rendered":"After Nixing 50-Million-Gallon-A-Day Desalination Plant, California Demands Residents Use Less Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-nixing-50-million-gallon-a-day-desalination-plant-california-demands-residents-use-less-water%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>California residents were slapped with tighter water restrictions Tuesday two weeks after state officials <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/environment\/2022\/05\/california-desalination-plant-coastal-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spiked plans<\/a> for a $1.4 billion saltwater desalination plant in Orange County amid a season of historic drought.<\/p>\n<p>The State Water Resources Control Board unanimously voted to implement a statewide watering ban for ornamental lawns at businesses and commercial properties as residents brace for a prolonged drought, the driest drought of its length <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/02\/14\/current-drought-is-worst-in-1200-years-in-california-and-the-american-west-new-study-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in 1,200 years.<\/a> Local government will also be required to reduce water use by up to 20 percent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia is facing a drought crisis and every local water agency and Californian needs to step up on conservation efforts,\u201d said California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/05\/24\/california-adopts-more-aggressive-water-conservation-measures\/\">press release<\/a> upon adoption of the new restrictions. \u201cThese conservation measures are increasingly important as we enter the summer months. I\u2019m asking all Californians to step up, because every single drop counts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?West\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest map<\/a> from the U.S. Drought Monitor updated Thursday shows the entire state under drought conditions. Reservoirs meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.water.ca.gov\/resapp\/RescondMain\">remain depleted<\/a> while snowpack is only at <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.water.ca.gov\/snowapp\/sweq.action?querydate=01-05-2022\">8 percent<\/a> of normal levels by this point in the year, according to state data. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map-1024x548-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map-1024x548-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map-768x411-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map-1536x822-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Western-Drought-Map.jpg 1647w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the dire drought conditions also placing an increasingly unreliable power grid in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/24\/report-deadly-summer-blackouts-inevitable-as-renewables-struggle-to-replace-reliable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jeopardy<\/a> of periodic blackouts, the California Coastal Commission rejected the latest proposal from a major water developer to construct a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. If built, the company behind the project, Poseidon Water, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poseidonwater.com\/huntington-beach-desalination-plant.html#:~:text=The%20Huntington%20Beach%20Desalination%20Plant,to%20be%20operational%20by%202023.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> the plant would make 50 million gallons of drinking water available to residents on a daily basis by next year. After a more than two-decade effort to appease public officials for a green light on construction, the state Coastal Commission unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.coastal.ca.gov\/reports\/2022\/5\/Th9a10a\/Th9a10a-5-2022-staffreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turned it down<\/a> based on routine concerns over risks to marine habitat and \u201cenvironmental justice.\u201d The commission argued the energy-intensive process of desalination presented too much of a coastal hazard while raising local water prices. <\/p>\n<p>California, the most populated state with the fifth most coastline of any in the nation, has 12 desalination plants in operation as drought worsens across the western United States. Less than 8 percent of the western U.S. excluding Colorado and Wyoming are under normal water conditions, which are both <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?High_Plains\">entirely rated<\/a> at minimum as \u201cabnormally dry\u201d by the National Drought Mitigation Center.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California residents were slapped with tighter water restrictions Tuesday two weeks after state officials spiked plans for a $1.4 billion saltwater desalination plant in Orange County amid a season of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}