Okay, so that is $0.002196 per gallon. I don’t understand where the common refrain comes from that desalinization plants are not cost effective. Was repayment of the $500 million factored into the Israeli price? Even if not, over the life of the plant, I doubt the cost is prohibitive.
“Okay, so that is $0.002196 per gallon. I don’t understand where the common refrain comes from that desalinization plants are not cost effective.”
At the quoted price it would cost CA about $3,000 per acre to water their crops.
Here is why it is prohibitive. Water is freedom. If people have clean water, they have an opportunity to create economies. Economies create wealth and innovation. Wealth and innovation create solutions to the worlds problems. Can’t have that in a utopian paradise.
Take all the money given to the UN each year and build desalination plants along the African coast and you eliminate global hunger and poverty. Unfortunately to the commies, that cannot happen. Building desalination plants removes any water from the ocean that would cause massive flooding as well as green large swaths of land which will eat CO2 and produce oxygen.