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State water official: Desalination an expensive but necessary prospect for AZ

Michael Marconi, Cronkite News Service//January 25, 2010//

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State water official: Desalination an expensive but necessary prospect for AZ

State water official: Desalination an expensive but necessary prospect for AZ

Michael Marconi, Cronkite News Service//January 25, 2010//

Desalinating ocean water is an expensive prospect but something Arizona must look toward in addressing population growth and increasingly dry weather brought on by climate change, a state official told...

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Tags: water treatment, Arizona Department of Water Resources, population growth, Karen Smith, Daniel Patterson, desalinization plant

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