11 Months Ago, Environment News Service says (in Largest US Desalination Plant on San Diego's Drawing Board) SAN DIEGO, California, May 15, 2009 (ENS) - A San Diego County Water Authority committee Thursday unveiled plans to build a seawater desalination plant on the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton that would be by far the largest in the United States. ...

And Fast Company says (in Can a $320 Million Seawater Desalination Plant Keep Droughts at Bay?) Poseidon's reverse osmosis system isn't the only option for seawater desalination. Yale spin-pff Oasys is working on a forward osmosis process, and start-ups including Porifera and NanoH20 plan on putting synthetic proteins into membranes that eject ...