Desalination plant
Carlsbad desalination plant
The largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, supplying San Diego County — and a standing case study in the cost and permitting difficulty of desalination in a high-regulation environment.
Key facts
- Operator
- Poseidon Water
- Capacity
- approximately 190,000 m³/day
- Technology
- Seawater reverse osmosis
- Commissioned
- 2015
- Share of San Diego County supply
- around 10%
Relationships
- Located in: United States
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Sources
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted
- OpenStreetMap Foundation — OpenStreetMap. Open — attribution required · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0