Because the liberals who run Cali would much rather have the issue than a solution. Hold the issue in front of voters' noses every election and they'll bite at it, just as a speckled trout goes after a salmon egg on a hook. Desalination would rehydrate the thirsty landscape out there, and provide the folks with all the drinking water they could ever need (wouldn't it also assuage all those climate nutjobs' concerns about the "rising ocean," too?). It has worked for decades for the Israelis. But instead, Cali's state government wants $17 billion trains.
“Desalination would rehydrate the thirsty landscape out there, and provide the folks with all the drinking water they could ever need (wouldn’t it also assuage all those climate nutjobs’ concerns about the “rising ocean,” too?)
And the greening would help sequester CO2.
It’s a win all around. Nope, instead we have to give money to Al Gore and the envirowhackos for a reason that can only be surmised as “It’s seed money for Agenda 21.
More like $100B trains...and truthfully, it's a government project...it's not going to even be that cheap.
For the same cost as a bullet train to nowhere, $120 billion, California could build enough desaltification plants to meet all the states public water needs.