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The main room inside the Dauphin Island reverse osmosis water treatment plant stays at 76 degrees without climate control.
Producing good water is a balancing act on Alabama’s Dauphin Island.
The barrier island a few miles off the state’s coast in the Gulf of Mexico has several wells, but they are all brackish, and the deepest and most productive well is the saltiest one. The water from that well...
