Eli5: why haven’t we started considering or implementing large scale desalinization in response to our water shortages?
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It’s incredibly expensive and energy intensive. You only do it if absolutely, 100%, no other way to get it, needs to be done. Also it’s bad for the environment because usually they just dump the salt right back into the ocean making that spot super salinated. So a lot of money, a lot of energy and a lot of negative environmental impact.
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