I really hope that Santa Barbara gets its act together on desalination as we are solely reliant on rainfall catchment in three area reservoirs. We have a desalination plant which ran in the 80's for a couple months until the rain came again, but is now in need of major repairs.
Apparently water bills would rise by some 30% (from $78 to $108 for average usage), but that seems like a low cost to pay for living in an area so susceptible to draught. After all, we already have a desal plant so we clearly know how bad it can be.
EDIT: We are solely reliant on rainfall catchment unless you are wealthy enough to have water trucked in to water your lawn :)
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-santa-barbara-...
Apparently water bills would rise by some 30% (from $78 to $108 for average usage), but that seems like a low cost to pay for living in an area so susceptible to draught. After all, we already have a desal plant so we clearly know how bad it can be.
EDIT: We are solely reliant on rainfall catchment unless you are wealthy enough to have water trucked in to water your lawn :)