San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It's Selling It

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7. Living in California made me think about water quite a bit, particularly when I thought of the Owen's valley and...

...other places.

I ruminated on subject quite a bit in my environmental thinking over the years, and I remarked on some "out there" ideas here at DU:

The Energy Required to Supply California's Water with Zero Discharge Supercritical Desalination.

If nothing else, it crystalized some ideas about process intensification, the recovery of exergy from primary heat. It is surely in the realm of "never will happen," but it was a nice dream to have, the dry lakes filled, the preservation of the San Joaquin's agricultural productivity, which as I see it now, is doomed, because fossil water can only be mined for so long before being depleted.

I have not lived in California for more than 30 years, and visited only periodically, usually for scientific conferences. Nevertheless, some of it remains in my blood. It was a place to which I went to heal when I needed healing.