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Tue, Oct 18, 2005
The California Report 2005-10-18
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Host: John Myers
Huntington Beach Desalination Plant
Huntington Beach councilmembers met Monday night and were expected to approve construction of the nation's largest desalination plant. The vote could cap years of debate in Huntington Beach about turning seawater into drinking water.
Reporters:
• Rob Schmitz
Is Delta Development a Recipe for Disaster?
In California's seemingly insatiable quest for new places to build homes, developers have begun turning to the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. For more than a century, this was an area of sparsely populated farmland on the eastern border of the Bay Area. But now, developers are putting up thousands of large homes, and critics say that building on the delta, below sealevel, is a recipe for disaster.
Reporters:
• Jason Margolis
End Music
"Charmy Chaplin," by Solas, from "The Edge of Silence" (Shanachie Records 2002)
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