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by stickyricky 1761 days ago
Do you have a figure for price per gallon? It might be interesting to do a cost benefit analysis between desalination and the water pipeline from Canada mentioned elsewhere in the comments.
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The best I have is from [1], which estimates 50 million gallons a day at an ongoing operating cost of around $50 million per year. You'd have to pick a timeframe to also amortize the cost of the plant itself and add that in.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324049504578545...