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by Retric 987 days ago
Simply introducing vastly more expensive desalinated water isn’t going to get people to use it when they can just pump more water from aquifers.

You need to fix the underlying issues or nothing changes. But by fixing those issues there’s no niche for desalination.

Desalination is a solution in search of a problem, not a useful tool here.