Eli5 if salt water turns to fresh water when it evaporates how do we have water shortages in coastal regions or water shortages in general?

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Eli5 if salt water turns to fresh water when it evaporates how do we have water shortages in coastal regions or water shortages in general?

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Answer 1

We don’t have water shortages in general. We have a shortage of adequate storage. More dams, increase existing dam capacity would solve any water shortage problem where it rains enough.

Not going to help with droughts for inland areas though. Those places were uninhabited or sparsely inhabited for good reasons.