Desalinization (Score 1)

I hope the planners in Mass take a real good look at the Tampa plant. This plant has loads of problems and lawsuits have followed along contractors going bankrupt, etc. This plant has not met expectations for production, blame is flying around regarding the membrane filters. Dont know the whole story, but read here.. http://www.tampabaywater.org/WEB/Htm/News/news.htm If the filters used are any better then my pool filters in terms of lifetime and longetivity, I would like to know. Of course they are different, but in my experience, filters work, but they are expensive and they do break down for various reasons. Great when they are new, but hold on to your wallet when they need to be replaced. In the case of Tampa, they insisted on drawing seawater fom the Tampa backbay, an area which is undoubtedly high in levels of organics, silt and other foulants. It seemed to me they would have done better by processing sewage.