Sam Farr: “The purpose of this bill, as amended, is to authorize the Federal program to finance strategies to encourage new…”

“The purpose of this bill, as amended, is to authorize the Federal program to finance strategies to encourage new research and development for methods and technologies for water desalinization. The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with other agencies, to award, as it was spelled out, contracts for studies regarding the desalinization of water and water reuse and demonstration projects, as so outlined. This bill allows us to drink that water, because what it does is it allows us to find the technology to solve the problems of water shortages and water contamination. Many people do not realize, but desalination of chemically and biologically impaired water can often be useful in solving problems of drought, of contamination, and an overappropriation of supplies.”