OC desal facility deserves a permit

Poseidon Water first proposed its desalination plant in Huntington Beach in 1998, only a few years after California had emerged from a drought.
By the time the company received its original operating permit in 2006, the state was soon heading into yet another drought. The Regional Water Quality Control Board now is considering wastewater-discharge permits for the plant not long after the state emerged from one of the most grueling droughts in our history.
Droughts certainly are a recurring chall