We are extremely pleased to welcome the following to the CalDesal Executive Committee to fill two recent vacancies on the Committee:

•  Christopher Cook – Director of Operations, Central Division – California American Water
• Michelle Peters – Director of Operations – Poseidon Resources (Channelside)

Given the quantity and quality of the applicants for the two Executive Committee vacancies, it was not an easy decision for the Committee to make these selections. 

When you have an opportunity, please congratulate the new members of the CalDesal Executive Committee!  

A Call for Abstracts for the CalDesal 2024 Annual Conference has been released, and the Events Planning Committee is in the process of receiving abstracts and shaping the content for the conference.  

The CalDesal Events Planning Committee encourages you to submit abstracts within these broadly-outlined categories:  

• Desalination technology innovations and advancements
• Brine and concentrate management strategies and concepts
• Ocean water desalination projects and technologies
• Brackish water desalination projects and technologies
• Tackling myths related to desalination
• Renewable energy applications for desalination
• Reducing the desalination carbon footprint
• Clarifying mitigation obligations for desalination projects
• Cost, rate structures, and funding for desalination projects
• Desalination and disadvantaged communities
• Permitting/regulatory considerations (e.g., sea level rise, establishing “need”) 
• Management innovations and opportunities for desalination project design, construction, and operation
• And more

The deadline for submittal of abstracts is October 27, 2023. We are anticipating a very crowded field of interest for participation in the Annual Conference, so the sooner you are able to submit an abstract, the more likely it can be built-in to the conference content planning efforts.

An on-line portal for submittal of abstracts is accessible here.

The always-popular CalDesal Fall Mixer is right around the corner! The Fall Mixer is preliminarily scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 29 at 6:00 PM in the Renaissance Esmerelda in Indian Wells in conjunction with the ACWA Fall Conference.

Hold the date and time – we’d love to have you join us for this great event!

Additionally, Fall Mixer sponsorship opportunities are now open! Please follow this link to lock-in your sponsorship of the CalDesal Fall Mixer: https://SMA.regfox.com/caldesal-fall-mixer-sponsorship-opportunities

This event is attended by hundreds of participants at the ACWA Fall Conference, and is always well-attended and a must-visit destination during the Conference!

We greatly appreciate your sponsorship consideration and look forward to seeing you in Indian Wells!

At the February 2024 CalDesal Annual Conference, we will be awarding the inaugural DESAL Award of the Year in recognition of a desalination community leader for being an outstanding desalination advocate and for making material contributions to advancing desalination development, legislation, policy, or regulation in California.

As part of this new award program, CalDesal needs volunteers to comprise an Award Committee to review nominations and make a recommendation for an award recipient(s) to the CalDesal Board of Directors at its November 29, 2023 meeting.

If you are interested in being a member of the small group of folks comprising this new Award Committee, please contact CalDesal Executive Director Glenn Farrel at glennf@caldesal.org. The Award Committee will begin its work in September and will conclude its work by early November.