[brianbreslin]

The cost to build desalination plants to service millions of residents would be BILLIONS. Tens of Billions. Money that is available, just being spent on other things...

[satori99]

We built one in Sydney a few years back. It cost nearly 2 Billion, and it now sits idle at a cost of around half a million per day

I guess we'll be laughing in 15 years though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Desalination_Plant