Desalination Proposal

In response to “Experts Weigh Desalination’s Promise, Impact,” Nov. 29:

California’s environment is already staggering under the ecological burden of 31 million people, more than the entire country of Canada. Now growing at 2.7% annually, a rate faster than India’s, the state’s population will reach the incomprehensible figure of 60 million in less than 30 years.

Water shortages might prevent that from ever happening. However, if this environmental limit is overcome by desalination, Californians can look forward to ever-increasing congestion, pollution, regulation, crime, ugliness, blight and, ultimately, flight from this “paradise lost.” We are beginning to see it already.

LEON KOLANKIEWICZ

Yorba Linda