The industry's hope is that the $1 billion Carlsbad plant, whose builders broke ground at the end of the year, will show that desalination is not an energy-sucking, environmentally damaging, expensive white elephant, as its critics contend, but a reliable, affordable technology, a basic item on the menu of water sources the country will need.
If you're taking a more luxurious way out, gather your cash, necessary papers, and a few basic items of clothing.
But I can't imagine getting a patent simply on the basic items of salt, flour, and eggs simply because I've created a new use or product from those ingredients".
But I can't imagine getting a patent simply on the basic items of salt, flour and eggs".
From these basic items of information, a containment strategy can be chosen.
The most basic items of equipment for a game of rugby union are the ball itself, a rugby shirt (also known as a "jersey"), rugby shorts, socks and boots.
This was the case, particularly in light of the considerable overhead that participants saw in using the application to develop an initial floor plan to scale and then populate it with basic items of furniture.
Among the basic items of protocol blithely ignored by Palin as she set off into the wilderness in a Rambo-style headband was her failure to take practice shots, or check the sights of the rifle, which duly turned out to be off-kilter.
Basic items of mandatory data are name, email, birthday, and gender.
(In the Vienna Circle's days, foundationalism had it that the basic items of knowledge upon which all others depended were independent of each other, concerned phenomenal states of affairs and were infallible; nowadays, foundationalists drop phenomenalism and infallibility).
