Environmental Press # 293

Subj: Re: [sehbna] FW: CORRECTION to $540 re desal power requirements
Date: 7/26/2003 10:55:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Jon V3
To: Ssurfdad@cs.com, sehbna@yahoogroups.com

In a message dated 7/26/2003 10:38:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Ssurfdad@cs.com writes:

Jan,
Average water use in the basin is closer to 200 gal per person
per day. 100 gal. per person per day is sewage (wastewater).

I took the number from Greg Jewell's article on desalination on the Surfrider website provided by Gary Sargent in yesterday's email at:

http://www.surfrider.org/huntington/pages/desalination.html

Check it out. You're right. We would have to use more water than we actually dispose of.

Jan