Catalina Island, desalination plant

Catalina Island s plant may be just the beginning. The city of Santa Barbara opened a 40 million desalination plant in 1992 that can produce 8 million gallons of drinkable water per day, and other plants are in the planning stages. 

Catalina Island s plant may be just the beginning. The city of Santa Barbara opened a 40 million desalination plant in 1992 that can produce 8 million gallons of drinking water per day. The southern California city of Carlsbad opened a reverse osmosis desalination plant in 2012 that can produce 50 million gallons of drinking water daily from seawater. Desalination plants are also in the woiks for Huntington Beach, California, and Camp Pendleton, a military base just north of Carlsbad. 

Residents of Catalina Island off the coast of southern California are benefiting from a desalination plant that can supply 132,000 gallons of drinkable water per day, one-third of the island s daily needs. 

Catalina Island, California, gets most of its water from a desalinization plant. 

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