Carlsbad is completing a sand shuffle this April where sand that has accumulated inside the entrance of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon is dredged up and pumped back onto local beaches north and south of ...

The Carlsbad, Calif. desalination plant, that borders Interstate 5 on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other in Carlsbad, Calif. America’s largest seawater desalination plant, shown here in ...

New intakes commissioned at a Carlsbad, Calif., desalination plant in 2020 were designed to be less harmful to marine life. The XPRIZE competition will weigh such impacts in awarding new funding ...

Desalination is often touted as a solution to the US’ water crisis. But the process’ cost financially and ecologically mean it won’t work everywhere.

Once improved, desalination could be a better drought solution for California than water reuse or more sustainable groundwater management.

The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant has served more than 100 billion gallons of water over the past seven years — a milestone reached in late October, the San Diego County ...

A man performs maintenance work in the reverse osmosis building at the Carlsbad Desalination plant Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Carlsbad, California. The facility is the Western hemisphere’s ...

CARLSBAD — A permit approved Thursday by the California Coastal Commission will allow the Carlsbad desalination plant to modify its seawater intakes and discharge structures to better protect ...

Where is desalination used? Desalination is used to extend drinkable water supplies beyond what is naturally available. Water-scarce regions are therefore particularly reliant on the technology.

California regulators on Thursday rejected a $1.4 billion desalination plant on environmental grounds, dealing a setback to Governor Gavin Newsom, who had supported the project as a partial ...