California struggles to swallow 2015 SWP allocation
Published on by Edyta Bednorz, Global Water Intelligence - Brand Marketing Executive in Business
The announcement by the California Department of Water Resources of an initial 10% allocation for State Water Project customers in 2015 has clear potential to accelerate the adoption of alternative water strategies such as desalination.
Although recent storms have helped to replenish the water level in Lake Oroville since it hit record lows last month, DWR estimates that it would take 150% of the average winter precipitation levels for the state to recover from its three-year drought.
With the initial allocation little better than this year's revised 5% figure, more and more municipal authorities are looking to alternative water resourcing solutions to meet their future needs. The Cadiz aquifer storage and recovery project is prominent among these, while the prospect of large-scale desalination plants developed by the private sector to deliver water to multiple agencies at cheaper unit costs than the State Water Project is also gaining ground.
See more at: www.globalwaterintel.com/news