officials at the carlsbad plant say theirs will use 46% less energy. project is not without criticism. environmentalists point out desalination requires a lot of energy and that brine discharge can negatively impact marine life. >> creating more marine wetlands in the san diego bay to create new habitat so fish can reproduce there. with respect to the brine discharge we dilute the brine discharge before it leaves the site. >> reporter: the plant is expected to be completed in 2016. >> everybody is extremely excited to see this project coming online and providing us with a new water supply. >> that's something. solve a lot of problems that way. for more on tech innovation check out receipt designed cnn "money" and find our new mid yee and luxury sections and our special section, big money. million dar back yards in a neighborhood near you and a $21,000 apartment in the sky located in the first class cabin of a luxury jumbo jet. >>> coming up, this used to be the only way to hail a cab. now the app disrupting the cab industry. worth $18 billion. it's onl

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officials at the carlsbad plant say theirs will use 46% less energy.criticism. environmentalists point out that desalination requires a lot of energy and that brine discharge can negatively impact marine life. >> we're creating more marine wetlands in the san diego bay to create new habitat so fish can reproduce there. with respect to the brine discharge, we dilute it before it leaves the site. >> reporter: the plant is expected to be completed in 2016. >> everybody is extremely excited to see this project coming online and providing us with a new water supply. >> iraq's prime minister spoke on television today as a brutal militant group runs roughshod over his country almost to baghdad. nuri al maliki lashing out at iraqi politicians that he called conspirators. he also called out countries who are helping the violent group called isis and credit sized the iraqi soldiers who laid down their weapons and fled. al maliki said in part, quote, we'll not allow anyone to divide the iraqi people. and then bizarrely said mosul didn't fall. the ones who have fa

officials at the carlsbad plant say theirs will use 46% less energy. is not without criticism. environmentalists point out that desal nation requires a lot of energy, and that brine discharge can negatively impact marine life. >> we're creating more marine wetlands south of san diego bay to create new habitat so fish can reproduce there. with respect to the brine discharge, we dilute the brine with sea water before it leaves the site. >> reporter: the plant is expected to be completed in 2016. >> everybody is ex extremely excited to see this project coming online and providing us with new water supply. >> that was rachel crane reporting. on this day in history, june 18th, 1966, u.s. senior military commander, general william wesmoreland requested increase of more than 100,000 troops in vietnam. his request was granted over a three-year period. and by 1969, more than 500,000 u.s. troops were in vietnam. >>> vietnam is also the topic of this week's episodes of the '60s. watch cnn or set your dvr for tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >>> that

. >> the carlsbad plant will cost approximately $1 billion.l be pumped 10 miles under ground to a regional delivery system, providing water to an additional 300,000 san diego county residents. >> customers, they won't know whether they're drinking des desalnated water or not. >> that's right. it'll be part of the supply. >> through a process called reverse osmosis, they'll convert every 2 gallons of sea water into 1 gallon of fresh water. filtering out 99.9% of the salt. the salt, or brine that's removed is discharged back into the ocean. the desalination process traditionally takes a lot of energy. a plant this size would normally use as much energy in a single day as 70 homes in a year. officials at the carlsbad plant say theirs will use 46% less energy. the project is not without criticism. environmentalists point out that desalination requires a lot of energy and brine discharge can negatively impact marine life. >> creating more marine wetlands in san diego bay to create new has been tbitat to reproduce. we dilute the brine with sea water

here in carlsbad north of san diego the largest desalination plant is under construction at a cost of $1 billion. when completed in 2016 it will provide 300,000 people in staying county with fresh drinking water, and farther up the coast. >> we are in the lovely city of santa barbara, and our desalination facility. >> reporter: he was give a tour of the city's desalination plant completed in the early 90's. >> these pressure vessels are like the primary treatment. >> a few months after the plant went live the rains came and the plant was most balled. >> reporter: time and technology has changed. recommissioning this plant is a huge undertaking but without it the region could likely run out of water. >> this is part of the process preparing ourselves. i'm not going to stand by and watch the community run out of water. >> reporter: which is exactly what is happening in mexico, where extreme rationing has been in effect since january. creating even a new sense of urgency to turn this former water treatment plant in mexico into a bi-national desalination plant where the water would be sha

when i woke up sunday morning and checked the tracker again, it moved all the way to carlsbad. it was on somebody. >> schmidgall and his roommate, greg, watch the iphone make its way around the san diego area. in an effort to reach the person who has the phone, the friends send a few kind words using a find my iphone feature on kenny's computer. >> you can do a message to the iphone tracker, so i was sending alerts and said, hey, this is my phone. if you can contact me that would be wonderful. >> when they get more response, they send more aggressive messages. >> i kept changing the message every once in a while. i know where you are, i know you have my phone. kind of just kept building up until i started to get a little angry about it. >> after four hours of watching his phone ping-pong around san diego, the friends decide it's time for action. terkelson, a camera man by trade, uses his iphone to document the search. >> we both got up and were like, okay, let's go get this thing. we got in the car. we start following it and start going up there, up to la jolla. >> the beacon w

in nearby carlsbad new mexico where these drums are you.ually transferred given that this plant is the country's only long term nuclear waste storage facility of its kind but since that leak the department of energy has shut down the w.i.p.p. until it can determine that of facility is safe but when it comes to the nuclear industry it's not just radioactive waste that we have to worry about it's astronomical monitary waste as well over in charleston south carolina the federal government is injecting billions of dollars into a nuclear project that it doesn't even want to see all the way back in one thousand nine hundred nine the government signed off on a deal to construct a plant that would transform plutonium into commercial fuel nuclear field rather sounds like a great way to convert waste into something usable right well unfortunately not one nuclear power plant in a country has actually agreed to burn the fuel and its reactors and fast forward nearly fifteen years later and the original one point seven billion dollars price tag project h