A Thirsty Baja California Turns to Ocean Desalination Sandra Dibble - San Diego Union Tribune
go to original July 4, 2015

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Far from the Colorado River, Baja California’s coastal regions are increasingly looking to alternative sources of supply — and desalination has become a favored option.

Set to launch operations in 2017, the state’s first utility-scale ocean desalination plant is under construction in Ensenada, where residents have been subject to water rationing. The $48 million plant, a reverse-osmosis facility, would supply 5.7 million gallons daily to residents of the port city, part of a sprawling Baja California municipality that includes the San Quintin export-oriented agricultural region and the wine-producing Valle de Guadalupe.

Mexico’s National Infrastructure Fund has contributed $14 million for the project, while the North American Development Bank is providing a $22 million loan to the South Korean company contracted by the state to build the facility.

The only area of the state that does not benefit from deliveries of Colorado River water, Ensenada has long relied on aquifers both for municipal and agricultural purposes — and those aquifers have become increasingly depleted.

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