WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize desalination projects and research. The Desalination Reauthorization Act would support desalination, a drought-proof water supply alternative, by providing grants for projects and research to lower its costs and reduce its environmental impacts.
The legislation would extend the programmatic approval of the Bureau of Reclamation to fund desalination projects, which would otherwise expire this year. If the programmatic approval expired, Congress would need to pass a separate bill in order to authorize each new desalination project, whic...