Tony Davis has covered water issues and other environmental problems in the Southwest since 1981 for three Arizona and New Mexico newspapers and has written regularly for the biweekly environmental magazine High Country News. He is currently the Arizona Daily Star’s environmental reporter. https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/contributor/tony-davis/rss en Environment & Wildlife Management & Supply Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:16:47 +0000 Tony Davis https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/12/07/why-one-decision-could-decide-the-future-of-desalination-in-california https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/12/07/why-one-decision-could-decide-the-future-of-desalination-in-california The future of coastal desalination in California could be determined by the decision on permits for a plant in Huntington Beach, where regulators and the plant’s company have locked horns on the issue of subsurface intake pipes.