Combined with two other desalination plants already in service, they will now be able to treat 14 million gallons of water per day.
"The water is at the lowest since the Hoover Dam was built," said Paule."That should be cautionary to everybody in Southern California that we need to be able to figure out how to use local resources for our water."
Eastern Municipal Water District officials said the opening of the plant now means that approximately 10% of the water used in their service area comes from their desalination programs. "Facilities like this are what show that there is a different path," said Joaquin Esquivel, chairmen of the State Water Resources Control Board."When we're in settings like this where we have communities and ratepayers that can contribute, and thankfully the state and feds that can contribute dollars to ensure the affordability of water supplies like this, you can do great things.
The new plant was funded in part by approximately $22.5 million in grant funding made available from Prop 1, the 2014 voter-approved water bond. EMWD officials said while the cost of operating and maintaining the facility will be paid by ratepayers, the hard costs of the facility that weren't covered by state and federal funding were supplemented by the developers of new homes in the service area.
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