Poseidon’s Reliability Promise – Pay More Don’t Get More: Looking Back to 2015
But underlying every other aspect of the proposed Poseidon ocean desalination project is that, if nothing else, it is a corporate scam for which the...
How the Poseidon Project Could Have Been Fully Permitted by Now: Looking Back to 2012
“If you have a well designed and planned facility the permitting process shouldn’t be any problem at all,” Luster said....
Cooling Trend – Power Plants Must Change to Protect Marine Life: Looking Back to 2007
(2007) Once-through-cooling (OTC), a process used by power generating plants for cooling, may be on its way out in the United States due to anticipated...
New OCWD Director’s Poseidon Alternative
Rowe called the Poseidon project “an insult to intelligent water resources management professionals, a foolish waste of their funds and efforts over the last 20...
Garbage In + Gospel Out = Poseidon’s Desal Price Predictions: Looking Back to 2018
Mark Twain popularized the saying that, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Take the Orange County Water District’s (OCWD) promotion of the proposed...
MWDOC Will Study Poseidon Project Alternatives
For years, members of the Orange County Water District’s Board of Directors (OCWD BOD) have lied to the public and state officials about establishing the...
Water Board Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Plant But Refuses to Consider Cheaper Alternatives
Pro-Poseidon members of the OCWD BOD gave false information to the State Lands Commission....
Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination: False Stats Pushed by Poseidon Advocate
“Contrary to popular belief,” Dewane claimed, “conservation does not come for free and in fact, prices have risen enough because of demand reduction [during the...
Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination: Poseidon’s Point Man Spins Alternative Water Facts
The Mesa Water District and the Orange County Water District’s dual board member, Shawn Dewane, loves to spin alleged factoids comparing conservation as a water...
Mesa Water On Conservation: In Cuba Maybe, But Not Here
To the five elected directors of the Mesa Water District, conservation is a Trojan horse, unleashing Cuban-style authoritarianism, drop by drop....