“I don’t understand how Arabs can desalinate seawater and California can’t”
they don’t want to because it would eliminate one of the crises used to control the population. They’re wasting money on a 100 billion dollar train to nowhere instead.
The exception is the San Diego Carlsbad Desalination plant that came online two years ago and is the largest RO plant in the western hemisphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant
“they don’t want to because it would eliminate one of the crises used to control the population.”
Here in northern NJ they won’t build more reservoirs as the population grew over the last few decades; we occasionally have water restrictions, but nothing serious. Our politicians don’t want to control the population, but instead bring in anyone willing to replace the Americans rapidly evacuating the state.