Southern California's Water Future

Document: Southern California's Water Future, a report by Robert A. Skinner, March 26, 1965, page 12made at a point far enough downstream to minimize impairment of existing and proposed uses on the river. Certainly, there is plenty of water wasting into the ocean from the Columbia-something like an average of 170 million acre-feet a year or more than ten times the Colorado's flow. It is recognized that for any plan to be adopted it must be beneficial to all the areas in which the water to be utilized originates, and acceptable to the people in such areas, as well as to those where supplemental water supply is needed. Desalting: An Exciting Question And, now, before concluding, let me talk about sea water conversion for a moment or two. Metropolitan has been interested in the possibilities of desalting ever since 1959 when the Fluor Corporation made a study on this subject for us. Subsequently, our Board of Directors instructed us to look into the availability of sites. Most importantly, just a little over a year ago we began discussions in Washington, D. C., which quickly ripened into contractual arrangements be- Saline water conversion plant at Point Loma had capacity of one million gallons a day. Plant was dismantled, shipped to Guantanamo Bay where it is now in operation. -11-Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 1,044,659 byte