JERUSALEM | BY ARI RABINOVITCH

Israel’s IDE Technologies, which opened this week a billion-dollar desalination plant in California, is helping to plan 10 new facilities throughout the United States, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday.

By Asher Price – American-Statesman Staff

Highlighting the ongoing quest to find new sources of water in an increasingly thirsty state, the Texas Water Development Board on Tuesday announced it will lend $2 million to the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority to complete a feasibility study on a potential seawater desalination plant.