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About Desalination
Overview of Desalination
History of Desalination
Desalination Technologies
Desalination in California
Desalination for City of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District

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Project Phases
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Documents
scwd² Task Force Meetings- Agendas & Minutes
scwd² Desalination Program Materials
Technical and Project Reports
In the News

Monthly Meetings- Agendas and Minutes

Program Materials
Pilot Plant Handout (March 2008)
Tour Guide of the Pilot Plant (December 2007)
Integrated Water Plan Update (Fall 2008) NEW!
Pilot Plant Update (November 2008) NEW!

In the News

Desalination Plant could help soothe Santa Cruz water woes, City on A Hill, April 10, 2008
Water Districts kick off Desalination Testing, Mid-County Post, April 1, 2008
Santa Cruz Lifts Watering Ban, Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 1, 2008
Grand Opening of Desalination Pilot Plant, Capitola-Times, April 1, 2008
As we see it: Reading the water guage, Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 30, 2008}
Salt or no salt, blended or on the rocks?, Good Times Santa Cruz, March 26, 2008
Pilot desal plant opens in Santa Cruz, CA, Watertechonline.com, March 25, 2008 (subscription needed)
Pilot desal plant up and pumping in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 21, 2008
Santa Cruz begins testing a water desalination plant..., abc7news.com, March 20, 2008
Costs of Santa Cruz desalination test plant soar, Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 21, 2007
Water Districts Break Ground on Experimental Desalination Plant, Mid County Post, July 24, 2007
Testing the waters for desalination in Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 21, 2007
Never-ending story, Monterey County Weekly, April 3, 2008
Pajaro water supplier aims for desal plant, Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 8, 2008
Moss Landing pilot desal plant gets OK, Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 2, 2007

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