March 21, 2007--Dormant desalting plant on Colorado River being tested (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
A plant built to remove salt from highly saline irrigation runoff has sat idle in southwestern Arizona for more than 14 years after only a nine-month run. But worries over a potential water shortage in the Colorado River stemming from continued drought and surging regional growth have prompted officials to restart the plant, and federal officials are now putting it through a 90-day trial run...If the plant is put into use, it could provide about 82,000 acre-feet of water annually that could be included in a 1.5 million acre-feet allotment the U.S. is obligated to deliver to Mexico.
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