Gabriel Sandler Cronkite News//May 4, 2018//

This section of the Yuma Desalting Plant represents one-third of the plant’s purifying capacity. Since 1992, the plant has only operated three times.(PHOTO BY GABRIEL SANDLER/CRONKITE...

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