That's what struck me as particularly egregious in this latest crisis. Where's the explanation as to how the water used in energy production is wasted? Just because an industry consumes a resource, that doesn't mean said resource is destroyed in the process. After all, if anything could ever be thought of as renewable it's water.
It's consumed then released back into the environment but even if contaminated evaporation separates it from the dissolved contaminants. That's basic science.
This latest alarm is all based, albeit subtly, on the presupposition that man-made global climate change is real. That's what this is really about: we have to change our ways or else the entire planet is going to become as dry as a desert, as the heat rises and evaporates all the water away.
If they want to promote this man-made climate change clap-trap at least have the honesty to admit it out in the open. Then again, these are leftists here, I doubt honesty is in their vocabulary.
Desalinization.