There’ a really TINY country in the middle east next to a body of water so small it is ONLY called a SEA. This tiny country is in an area historically badly deficient in water.
They have designed, built and are running DESALINATION plants so productive, they are actually SELLING surplus water.
I read somewhere that California is quite close to a large body of water and has a coastline hundreds of miles long.
Once there was a really LARGE country that possessed the world’s greatest “CAN DO” attitude. That country, as it existed years ago, would have been producing so much water that California would have been in peril of becoming swamp land.
Billions of gallons of nice fresh water that would solve a lot of problems. After all, California is the prime source for the food needed by millions of Americans. But we musn’t spoil the view.
That middle eastern country can pump very cheap oil and gas out of the ground to power desalination. Desalination is energy intensive. And you know what the energy climate is like in the U.S. Even if you got your desalination plant approved, you’d never find reliable, cheap energy to power it.
If we had any sense at all we would have desalination plants all along So Calif.