Start here:

http://www.google.com – Great search engine to find information.

Local information:

http://www.mrcirl.org/ -- Marine Resources Council IRL – Start here. They are a local organization that is concerned about the Indian River Lagoon and will not support a desalination plant on the Indian River if it’s going to damage the river.

http://www.mrcirl.org/water/watrdata.html -- Water data 

http://www.mrcirl.org/marker/marker1901/0306.html -- (drinking water article) 

http://www.sms.si.edu/research.htm -- Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce Research

Plain English and great explanations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination_plant -- Great explanation and links about desal and reverse osmosis

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/publications/reports/Models.pdf -- Scientific models explained in simple English

http://www.gewater.com/library/tp/833_What_Is.jsp -- What is reverse osmosis? Lots and lots of links!

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/vistoc.htm -- Great website to explain scientific modeling.

http://www.gewater.com/library/tp/1136_Reverse_Osmosis.jsp -- High quality water, low cost.

http://www.fit.edu/AcadRes/dmes/ -- Florida Institute of Technology

http://www.oas.org/usde/publications/Unit/oea59e/ch35.htm -- Truthful site

Environmentalist sites:

http://www.waterwebster.com – Environmentalist site.

http://www.waterwebster.com/desalination_frameset.htm -- Waterwebster on Reverse Osmosis

http://www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=/index/index.html&b=/index/category/3.7.html -- Environmental site

http://www.cee.vt.edu/program_areas/environmental/teach/wtprimer/desalt/desalt.html -- Not too flattering of desal Reverse Osmosis

Desal Technology:

http://www.eetcorp.com/lts/HEEDSUMM.htm?source=GoogleAdWords Desal technology

http://www.water-technology.net/projects/shuaiba/ Desal plant in Saudi Arabia -- Good site

http://www.tampabaywater.org/MWP/MWP_Projects/Desal/DesalinationProject_Overview.htm Tampa desal

http://www.toray.co.jp/e/membrane/plant/su800/y2000.html --

http://www.toray.co.jp/e/membrane/plant/sulg/y2000.html --

http://www.toray.co.jp/e/membrane/plant/su700/y2000.html -- Three reverse osmosis lists as of 2000

For the scientists among us:

http://urila.tripod.com/Seawater.htm -- Highly scientific explanation on how to improve efficiency of Reverse Osmosis Desal

http://bruce.edmonds.name/compsci/ -- for the scientists among us

http://www-gsb.uchicago.edu/fac/arnold.zellner/more/CURRENT-PAPERS/bayesian.pdf -- for more scientists

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/sim.html -- Scientific Information Model for Deep sea Mapping and Sampling 

http://www.scientificsoftwaregroup.com/pages/index.php?cPath=21 -- buy software to model the IRL yourself; might have to be a scientist, teacher, etc., to buy software, don’t know for certain.