This semester, I chose to focus on the relationship that Los Angeles has historically had with the states water and the relationship they have now and try to think of a way that could alleviate the states water crisis. the project is situated on Owens Lake a salt Lake that dried up because of the LADWP diverting water from Owens river down the los Angeles aqueduct. For many years the valley was plagued with dust storms from the dry lake and was the largest source of carcinogenic air pollution because the dust contains heavy metals such as arsenic and Cadmium. the city of Los Angeles was eventually forced to cover 52 square miles of the lake with river water to mitigate the dust, creating a network of brine pools. During my research I felt that Desalination has the potential to solve the water crisis. The two big problems with desalination is that it is very energy intensive and for every gallon of freshwater created, two gallons of brine are made as a waste product. this brine is typically just dumped back into the ocean and is very detrimental for the aquatic environment near the plant. while researching what brine could be used for I stumbled across the concept of blue energy which is a way of creating power using salinity gradients. the method I focused on is reverse electrodialysis. the way it works is you have a series of chambers that are separated by semipermeable membranes. these membranes will either only allow positive ions or negative ions to pass through. and the chambers are filled alternating whether they are filled with salt water or fresh water and at one end of the series you have a cathode and on the other you have an anode. researches discovered that this process can create a lot more power if brine is used instead of freshwater.  The concept for this project is to create a combined power and desalination plant on the lake. the power plant will use reverse electrodialysis and create enough power to pump seawater to the site and also to run the reverse osmosis desalination plant. the power plant will use the wastewater from the desalination side as fuel and it will utilize the network of brine pools on the lake bed as a massive fuel storage area while also providing dust mitigation. The idea it to create an almost closed loop system in which the only input is seawater the the only output is fresh water and power.