{"id":2341,"date":"2008-04-16T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2008-04-16T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:51:33","slug":"poseidons-side-of-the-desalination-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"Poseidon&#8217;s Side Of The Desalination Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/desal-ariel-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/desal-ariel-1.jpg','popup','width=449,height=275,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/desal-ariel-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"263\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Desal-Ariel-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the April 16, 2008 edition of the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-maclaggan16apr16,0,2919419.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Peter MacLaggan<\/strong>, Senior Vice President of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poseidonresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poseidon Resources Corp.<\/a><\/strong>, (the company that hopes to put in &#8220;the largest and most technologically advanced [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=desalination+plant\" target=\"_blank\">desalination plant<\/a><\/strong>] in the Western Hemisphere&#8221;) in our lagoon has written an Op-ed piece titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-maclaggan16apr16,0,2919419.story\" target=\"_blank\">From Sea To Tap<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, as a response to <strong>Mindy McIntyre&#8217;s<\/strong> Op-Ed of April 10, 2008 titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-op-snow-mcintyre10apr10%2C0%2C5943383.story\" target=\"_blank\">The SUV of Water<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California&#8217;s water supply system is based largely on pumping water from environmentally sensitive watersheds in Northern California and the Colorado River over hundreds of miles to Southern California through an elaborate and costly network of dams, canals and reservoirs. But proven desalination technology now allows us to produce higher-quality water along the coast, where the majority of the state&#8217;s population resides, at a comparable cost and without damaging the environmentally sensitive upstream habitats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No matter what you think about the Carlsbad desalination factory, both of these opinions are good reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-maclaggan16apr16,0,2919419.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 16, 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Peter MacLaggan, Senior Vice President of Poseidon Resources Corp., (the company that hopes to put in &#8220;the largest and most technologically advanced [desalination plant] in the Western Hemisphere&#8221;) in our lagoon has written an Op-ed piece titled From Sea To Tap, as a response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}