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Post Carbon Board President Debbie Cook was quoted in this article about a recent public meeting about plans to build a desalination plant for Santa Cruz.

From the article:

Several panelists, including former mayor of Huntington Beach Debbie Cook and Santa Cruz resident Rick Longinotti, attacked desalination as an expensive waste of energy that could be avoided with increasing conservation and trying other water-saving methods such as recycling and capturing rain and other runoff.

"Water restrictions depend on cooperation, and if the water is there for use, most customers are not going to put up with conserving more,"

Kocher said. "Conserving more, it's just not enough."

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