Carlsbad Chamber member Poseidon Water  was featured in a recent story from  NPR dealing with California’s drought. The story spotlights how the Carlsbad desalination plant will be the largest in the western hemisphere and allow more than 100,000 household access to purified drinking water. The article also focuses on the cost of the water and how it will be sustainable even in a drought like we are experiencing today. Or as Peter MacLaggan, Senior Vice President of Poseidon, refers as, “drought proof.” Below is an excerpt from the story.  

California is getting some much needed rain this week, but more than two-thirds of the state is still in extreme drought conditions, and that has the state thinking about alternative ways of getting water. On the coast in Carlsbad, Calif., construction workers are building what will be the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. When finished in early 2016, it is expected to provide up to 50 million gallons of fresh drinkable water every day.  

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