CA Regulators Reject Desalination Plant (During Historic Drought)

I don't know anything about this at all...but...50,000,000 gallons per day?? It just seems kind of implausible that this is really going to do all that much damage to marine life. Irreplaceable marine life, anyway. And: "too expensive for low-income consumers"? Really? More expensive than what water's going to end up being in ten years at this rate? 

But then you get to the punchline: environmentalists are fixated on "recycled water." Drinking pee is exactly the kind of thing that gives leftists a tingle down their leg. 

Again: I don't know anything about this and probably shouldn't be saying anything...but it all fits the profile, doesn't it?