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The Baltimore Sun reports, in "Thirsty Harford city may tap bay," that Aberdeen, Maryland proposes to build a desalination plant, because they are running out of water. From the article:

A proposal to build a plant that would extract salt from the brackish waters of the bay would make the Harford County community the first in Maryland to desalinate water for human consumption, implementing a process used in other parts of the world but not widely in the United States.

The city proposes to withdraw as much as 6 million gallons a day from the [Chesapeake] bay - the nation's largest estuary - and treat it at an Aberdeen Proving Ground pumping station that has been unused since about 1998. The station would be retooled for about $14 million, and the base would continue to get drinking water from the city system.

From the Global Security website page on Aberdeen Proving Ground:

In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended that Fort Belvoir, VA be realigned by relocating and consolidating Sensors, Electronics, and Electronic Warfare Research, Development and Acquisition activities to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, and by relocating and consolidating Information Systems Research and Development and Acquisition (except for the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems) to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The Army Research Institute, Fort Knox, KY would be realigned by relocating Human Systems Research to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. This recommendation would also realign Redstone Arsenal, AL, by relocating and consolidating Information Systems Development and Acquisition to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Assuming no economic recovery, this recommendation could result in a maximum potential increase of 9,834 jobs (5,042 direct and 4,792 indirect jobs) over the 2006 – 2011 periods in the Baltimore-Towson, MD Metropolitan Division (0.6 percent).

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