Joe Naiman recently produced an excellent article on the Camp Pendleton desalination water plant. Most of the time, I do not read Mr. Naiman’s stuff because he sounds like a public relations manager for FPUD’s general manager. In this particular article, for the most part, he provided some very good impartial information.

The 150 million gallon daily potable water production is an excellent source of needed potable water of much higher quality than FPUD’s 495 mg/L TDS. Desalination of seawater by reverse osmosis can produce water quality of 50 mg/L TDS.

An energy cogeneration plant...