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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A desalination plant needs a large power source located nearby. Like nuclear power plant large. It’s an incredibly energy hungry process with current technology and so is the expensive way to do the job. Other issues being sea level rise, and the unpopularity of putting nuclear power plants near sea level anywhere in range of an earthquake zone after fukushima.