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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These facilities do exist, but for the most part no, they’re very difficult to run profitably.

The thing is, salt and water come separately naturally. It’s cheaper and more efficient to have a salt mine and transport the salt than manufacture it from salt water. It’s also cheaper to extract water from a fresh water source and transport it than to separate it.

It’s possible as transportation costs go up this reality will change. But right now the cost case isn’t there.