Desalination Archives

Ric Grenell’s ‘Fix California:’ Doing the Hard Work to Make Long-Term Impact on California

June 8, 2021 7:12 amJune 8, 2021 7:39 am

Last month the California Globe talked with Richard “Ric” Grenell, former Ambassador to Germany, and President Donald Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, about his long term plan to “Fix California.” Grenell’s is a long game plan to revamp state...

Dams and Desalination – California Needs Both

June 7, 2021 2:42 amJune 6, 2021 8:46 pm

When Californians can take showers, without flow restrictors, for as long as they want, and when Californians can have lawns again instead of rocks and cacti in their front yards, water infrastructure in California will once again be adequate. When...

Ric Grenell Aims to Revamp California Politics and ‘Fix California’

May 18, 2021 2:30 amMay 19, 2021 11:22 am

After a year of COVID lockdowns and Zoom school, Ric Grenell says millions of Californians are tired of being controlled, tired of the political lockdowns and restrictions, and really tired of having their kids forced to sit in front of...

Ric Grenell to ‘Fix California’ With Three-Point Plan in Democrat-Dominated state

April 9, 2021 3:42 pmApril 25, 2021 7:30 am

Richard Grenell, former Acting Director of National Intelligence and U.S. Ambassador to Germany, announced he is launching a group called “Fix California” aimed at bringing meaningful change to the Democrat-dominated state. He is also being talked about as a potential...

Solving California’s Urban Water Scarcity

March 31, 2021 2:15 amMarch 30, 2021 4:09 pm

A study by the Public Policy Institute of California in 2019 found that per capita urban water use in the state has dropped consistently over the years, from 231 gallons per day in 1990 to 180 gallons per day in 2010, then...

Richard Grenell Calls for Common Sense California Infrastructure

March 23, 2021 2:49 amMarch 22, 2021 9:04 pm

California resident Richard Grenell, an American diplomat and politician who served in both the Trump and George W. Bush administrations, has been making some unusual and very welcome noise on Twitter. Interspersed amid his more conventional conservative commentary are calls...

Objections to Desalination are Shopworn, Discredited Cliches

March 7, 2021 2:11 amMarch 6, 2021 9:30 pm

Anyone who still thinks that the Huntington Beach desalination plant poses a significant threat to the environment should ask themselves: Why would Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who depends on donors that never saw an environmentalist overreach they didn’t like,...