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The financing will support design and construction of the Kalaeloa Seawater Desalination Facility on Oahu, which EPA says is planned to produce 1.7 million gallons of drinking water per day.","The project also includes facilities to dispose of desalination byproducts, a recycled-water pipeline and transmission lines. EPA says the new supply is intended to improve reliability in central Oahu, particularly the more arid service area west of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. 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