How many desalination plants are there in the United States? Where are most of them located?
There are about 250 desalination plants in the US with a design capacity of >0.025 MGD. Almost half of them (114) are in Florida, 33 in California, and 38 in Texas (Mickley, 2004 and Nicot and others, 2006 1.29 MB). The 25-MGD desalination plant at Tampa Bay, Florida, is so far, the largest seawater desalination plant in the country. Texas is planning to build a seawater desalination plant within the next several years (see Question 10, above) as is California which is proposing about two dozen plants along the Pacific coast.
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