CITIZEN LED COALITION MARKS TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF STOPPING DESALINATION PROPOSAL for ROCKLAND’s DRINKING WATER
Ten years ago this week, Rockland County residents defeated a desalination proposal by Suez Water, the world’s second largest water company.
On December 17th, 2015, the New York State Public Service Commission (the PSC) ordered Suez to abandon plans to desalinate water from the Hudson River for Rockland’s drinking water. The landmark David & Goliath decision followed eight years of research and organizing by the Rockland Water Coalition, comprised of 34 local grassroots civic and environmental groups and larger organizations, such as Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, and Clearwater, together with a core group of informed citizens, supported by key elected officials.
Rockland residents resoundingly opposed the desalination proposal. In 2013, over 1,600 people turned out over two nights of Public Service Commission public hearings, overwhelmingly speaking in opposition to the Suez proposal.
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The Rockland Water Coalition
The Rockland Water Coalition supports affordable and sustainable management of our drinking water.
We support water policies that will protect and make the best use of our current water resources, rather than locking us into long-term, major rate increases for large, very expensive, new water supply projects.
