Drink the ocean
The city of Long Beach is considering building,
opening, and maintaining an ocean water desalinization plant off of Studebaker
Road.
The plant is part of a potential deal aimed
at solving the state's water shortage.
For too long we have been importing water
from the Colorado River and other sources.
The idea to create a desalinization plant
first surfaced during the big drought in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
but the technology was too expensive to be practical.
The growth of technology has the opportunity
to better our lives once again.
No longer will we be dependent on water
supplies from distant lands.
Well OK, Arizona and Northern California
are not that far away. But Southern California should not be dependent
on other places for our water.
We are leaders and trendsetters for the
country. Why should we need to get water from another state?
If the cost of desalting sea water has
gone down, we should look at the possibility.
That could be the answer to our prayers.
Scientists are saying that sea levels are
going to rise as polar ice caps melt in the future because of global warming.
So building this desalinization plant will
help prevent coastal flooding.
And the increased supply of ocean water
will be a bigger source of water in the coming decades.
Then we won't have to worry about running
out of water again for a long time. Who says global warming is all bad? |
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