I’m not sure of your point.
The Gulf Arabs run the biggest desalination plants in the world. They have been living on desalinized water for over half a century. Israel and Singapore have separately claimed to do the cheapest desalination in the world—at around $500-$700@ acre foot. They can put them up in 2-3 years.
In California a similar desalination plant will cost about $2000@acre foot, Its taken over 15 years to make the desalination plant and its still not finished.
Meanwhile California is going through a huge drought.
At Israel’s cost that is only 2/10 a cent per gallon!!!
Seems like a no brainer to me.
I was joking.
I get your point. Everything here is bogged down in regulation and everyone has to have a say. I posted an article here recently about the delay of a firehouse opening because it was not fully ADA compliant.