If salt and water are becoming hot commodities, why isn’t there a huge amount of saltwater treatment plants built/being built?

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Wouldn’t this be a very lucrative business? Also totally guessing at the flair…sorry.

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Desalinization requires huge amounts of energy. All of the methods for large scale production are expensive to implement compared to wells, gathering rainwater, etc. Unless you are in Death Valley or the Negev or the Sahara, it’s a losing business..