There was a book years ago entitled, “Is Martha Stewart Living.” One of the things the fictitious Stewart does is to travel to Everest to collect the purest hydrogen and oxygen molecules to make her own water.
Reminds me of the expensive ice at Whole Foods, lol. Used to buy it on occasion when at a friend’s house, that was the closest place to get it. We jokingly called it reconstituted organic glacier melt. Very pretty ice. Should have been, for what they charged.
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.