I'll give it a year before some environmental loon files suit and another six months after that before an Obama appointed judge orders it shutdown.
Even it the system was closed pipe all the way from the DESAL plant to the consumer, some butt wipe econut would find some kind of pipe rat, slug or amoebic slime in the pipes that would be ‘endangered’ and get it banned.
They’re actually Luddites and human haters is what they are.