Cook's concern is that the proposed desalted water will be piped to drier southern Orange County where the aquifer isn't as large and where development is booming.
With development already booming in Williamsburg, neighbors and some elected officials were unhappy about the large number of apartments proposed to rise in a grove of towers on the site.
Now that their populations are booming, thanks to the economic draw of oil and gas development, their innovative solutions from decades past are now reaching the breaking point.
Some Mexican firms are hoping to join the booming life-sciences industry in the U.S. Medical device maker Innovamedica has a product in development called a ventricular assistive device--used to keep patients alive during heart surgery--that is undergoing animal trials at the Texas Heart Institute.