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Anthony Lewis
Professor Ruth Fuller
LR10 - Intro to Library Research
21 November 2015
Massive Drought Leads to Desalination: An Annotated Bibliography
Throughout the past seven years the state of California has been in a drought; it has been
exceptionally serious in the past three. The drought started in the Southern California region and
has slowly spread up north, although still the worst in the South. Over the past three years Los
Angeles has hit an all time low record level of rain with almost twelve inches of rain in the past
three years, which is almost eighteen inches below average. With this being the most severe
drought on record Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in January asking
everyone to prepare for water shortages. In efforts to provide water, fifteen ocean desalination
plants are being built, primarily in the Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. Being the biggest
plant in the western hemisphere the one billion dollar project being built in Carlsbad, California
will be providing 50 million gallons of drinking water to San Diego County when it is finished
sometime in 2016. The question is, why is water desalination seen as good, and are we weighing
both the positive and negative effects of it; how can it affect the environment and the community
that it serves.

National Academies Advisors to the Nations on Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Desalination: A National Perspective. Illustrated ed. Washington D.C.: National
Academies, 2008. Print.

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Desalination: A national Perspective, is a book that critically analyzes the technologies
in desalination and the blockades to the implementation of them, and states the development of
the national research into desalination. It also gives a concise history to the research funding and
research in the United States to it. The book also goes over the water sufficiency problem and
how water desalination could possibly meet the needs of the water shortage.
This book relates to my project in my English 001 class because I am doing my project
on, Why is water desalination seen as good, and are we weighing both the positive and negative
effects of it; how can it affect the environment and the community that it serves. With that being
said, this book provides me with a brief history about the desalination process, and as it is not
very recent it can provide me information about how it was almost eight years ago, as well as the
research into it back then that I can compare to now.
I found this book by opening up Google Chrome and typing in the search bar,
www.solano.edu/library. The next thing I did was click databases, and then the database
drop down menu I scrolled down to EBSCOhost and clicked go. In advanced search I made
sure full text was selected and then searched, Water desalination in San Diego, and this book
was the first to pop up and I chose it. Source type: Book from the EBSCOhost Database.
Evidence:
http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.solano.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=17&sid=cd432603-9135405d-abf801290abcf766%40sessionmgr198&hid=106&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNwaWQsdWlkJm
N1c3RpZD1zNDMwMjQ1MyZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmU
%3d#AN=BK0007812473&db=kdh

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Perry, Tony. "The State; San Diego Water Board Rejects Desalination Plant Project." Los
Angeles Times [San Diego] 30 Jan. 2004, California Metro; Part B; Metro Desk sec.: n.
pag. Print.
In this newspaper article it talks about Poseidon Senior Vice President Peter M.
MacLaggan and how the company wanted to find a new partnership with possibly Oceanside or
Carlsbad. It explains how finding a partner was pretty essential in the water desalination project
plant. They estimated around $10 million dollars in the span of five years was spent by Poseidon
trying to get everything set up for the plant operation, including permits from the myriad public
agencies, only to be stopped in its path.
This Newspaper article has relevance to my research paper because of the fact it is
talking about water desalination. My paper being that it is about water desalination in Southern
California and this article talks about how they wanted to make a desalination plant in Southern
California, Carlsbad or Oceanside, in particular but they were shut down. now with the drought a
lot worse than it was at that time, a plant is actually being put up.
I found this Newspaper article by opening up Google Chrome and typing in the search
bar, www.solano.edu/library. The next thing I did was click databases, and then the database
drop down menu I scrolled down to ProQuest and clicked go. In advanced search I made sure
full text was selected and then searched, San Diego Desalination, and this newspaper article
was the second to pop up and I chose it. Source type: Newspaper article from the ProQuest
Database.
Evidence:
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.solano.edu/docview/421866583/34C4DD27931041E0PQ/1?
accountid=28688

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Potter, Christopher. "Assessment of the Immediate Impacts of the 20132014 Drought on
Ecosystems of the California Central Coast." Western North American Naturalist 75.2
(2015): 129-45. ProQuest. Web.
A basic summary of this Journal is A methodology was made to assess the effects of the
worst drought in California history, on the ecosystems in Californias Central Coast region.
Using many different objects including a satellite, and in situ measurements of soil moisture in
the vegetation type of the region. All in all this article just explains how the severity of the
drought has affected the soil and vegetation in California, along the central coast region.
The way this one can be connected to my English 001 final project is it informs me about
the conditions of the environment which is what I need for my research. My thesis being, Why
is water desalination seen as good, and are we weighing both the positive and negative effects of
it; how can it affect the environment and the community that it serves, I can compare this to the
effects of the desalination.
I found this Journal by opening up Google Chrome and typing in the search bar,
www.solano.edu/library. The next thing I did was click databases, and then the database
drop down menu I scrolled down to ProQuest and clicked go. In advanced search I made sure
full text was selected and then searched, California Drought, and this Journal was the second
to pop up and I chose it. Source type: Journal from the ProQuest Database.
Evidence:
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.solano.edu/docview/1717311597/abstract/C30A59E7D23C4
302PQ/2?accountid=28688
PR Newswire. "The Global Desalination Market 2012-2022." (2012): n. pag. ProQuest. Web. 8
Nov. 2012.

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This article called The Global Desalination Market 2012-2022, is very self explanatory,
it talks about the market in desalination from 2012 and the plans up to 2022. it talks about where
and how many markets there are in this field, and the technology advancements. It also has has
interviews from experts from major companies and graphs of all kinds.
I could use this in my research paper in English 001 for statistics on desalination and if
its good or not. This information can enlighten me with background information on the
technology of desalination and how it works.
I found this article just like all the others by opening up Google Chrome and typing in the
search bar, www.solano.edu/library. The next thing I did was click databases, and then the
database drop down menu I scrolled down to ProQuest and clicked go. In advanced search I
made sure full text was selected and then searched, Desalination, and if you scroll down just
a little bit this article was right on the first page so I chose it. Source type: Article from the
ProQuest Database.
Evidence:
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.solano.edu/docview/1143373209/D154F32F43C54C9DPQ/3
?accountid=28688
Rogers, Paul. "Nation's Largest Ocean Desalination Plant Goes up near San Diego; Future of the
California Coast?" San Jose Mercury News. N.p., 29 May 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2015.
This last article from San Jose Mercury News explains the plans about the largest
desalination plant in the whole Western Hemisphere. The 1 billion dollar project with more than
300 construction workers working on it will supply San Diego county with 50 million gallons of
drinking water a day. There are also fourteen more proposed desalination plants being proposed
and built, but not nearly as big as this one.

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This is probably the most relevant out of all the searches because it has to do with the
desalination plant that is going to be up in 2016. I can do more research and look around at the
environment and see how much and how fast the salt content in the ocean will raise in that area
due to the massive amounts of water being inhaled by the plant each day. Also This can be used
to see if water desalination is actually a good or bad thing.
Although the previous citations were all found relatively the exact same way this one was
a little bit different. After opening my internet browser I had typed into the search bar, Southern
California Ocean Desalination, and it was the first one to come up. The reason I found it so fast
was because in class someone had shown the video that is in the article. Source type: Article
from San Jose Mercury News website.
Evidence:
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plantgoes-up-nearLewis 6