Additionally, Fall Mixer sponsorship opportunities are now open! Please follow this link to lock-in your sponsorship of the CalDesal Fall Mixer:

https://SMA.regfox.com/caldesal-fall-mixer-sponsorship-opportunities

This event is attended by hundreds of participants at the ACWA Fall Conference, and is always well-attended and a must-visit destination during the Conference!

We greatly appreciate your sponsorship consideration and look forward to seeing you in Indian Wells!

We are nearing the October 27, 2023 deadline for submittal of abstracts for the upcoming CalDesal 2024 Annual Conference. 

The CalDesal Events Planning Committee encourages you to submit abstracts within these broadly-outlined categories: 

• Desalination technology innovations and advancements
• Brine and concentrate management strategies and concepts
• Ocean water desalination projects and technologies
• Brackish water desalination projects and technologies
• Tackling myths related to desalination
• Renewable energy applications for desalination
• Reducing the desalination carbon footprint
• Clarifying mitigation obligations for desalination projects
• Cost, rate structures, and funding for desalination projects
• Desalination and disadvantaged communities
• Permitting/regulatory considerations (e.g., sea level rise, establishing “need”)
• Management innovations and opportunities for desalination project design, construction, and operation
• And more

The deadline for submittal of abstracts is October 27, 2023. We are experiencing a very crowded field of interest for participation in the Annual Conference, so the sooner you are able to submit an abstract, the more likely it can be built-in to the conference content planning efforts.

An on-line portal for submittal of abstracts is accessible here:

CalDesal is pleased to announce the formation of its newest working committee – the Technology/Innovations Committee. With rapidly emerging and innovative technologies throughout the desalination industry – from brackish water desalination technologies, deionization, brine mining, offshore and deep-sea desalination, and many innovations to integrate renewable energy and zero-carbon resources, it is more than timely to create a new working committee dedicated to the discussion and engagement on technological advancements and innovations for desalination.

We are in the preliminary stages of forming this working committee, and are soliciting interest from among the membership of CalDesal. If you are a Member of CalDesal and would like to participate in this newly-formed committee, please reach out to Executive Director Glenn Farrel at glennf@caldesal.org to join the committee and participate with your colleagues in this exciting new venture.

The California Department of Water Resources is in the process of completing work on its update of the California Water Plan, which will include a series of Resource Management Strategy stand-alone components focused on water resilience opportunities, including a Resource Management Strategy specifically dedicated to desalination in California.

CalDesal recently submitted a comment letter on the latest iteration of the draft Resource Management Strategy, and is continuing to work on engagement with DWR to shape the Resource Management Strategy in a manner that properly advances and supports desalination as a meaningful water resilience tool for California.