Ever tasted seawater? If you’ve been swimming in the ocean, you have. Yuck. But we’re in a nasty drought here in Southern California — again — so some of us will have to use it eventually. This article explains the emergence of desalination as a response to drought in our area. Coincidentally, I was just talking with my brother about this yesterday, and we were under the impression that the plant in Santa Barbara was sold or scrapped after it was built about 12 years ago. It wasn’t finished in time to help in that drought. It looks like we were mistaken. This web site says it’s operational and still belongs to the City. Which is good.