The groundbreaking of Project Monarch was featured yesterday by Haley Smith of the Los Angeles Times.

In the feature, Haley describes how Project Monarch, a public-private partnership between the Palmdale Water District and Capture6, will not only provide residents with new water supplies, but will also help California achieve its goals of 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality by 2045.

The article delves into Capture6’s carbon-capture process, and how our technology is designed to work with the Palmdale Water District to recover freshwater for L.A. County, while eliminating the need for expensive brine ponds.

Speaking on the historic importance of Project Monarch as a first-of-its-kind facility, Capture6 CEO Ethan Cohen-Cole said “This facility has the potential to demonstrate — both in the state and country and potentially globally — that we can build a carbon-negative water treatment facility.”

Read the full article from the Los Angeles Times.