Desal projects in Carlsbad and Huntington Beach were based on false premises from the start

POSEIDON TOWN: For 20 years Poseidon Water and allies falsely boasted that both projects would be 100 percent privately financed at no risk to 'taxpayers'

For the last 20 years, the most used of many clichés designed to promote Poseidon Water’s now dead $1.4 billion Huntington Beach ocean desalination project was that it would create a drought proof water supply (56,000 acre-feet a year) for Orange County at no cost or risk to the taxpayers.