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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Such facilities need energy and a location near the end user to save on transit costs. Water is relatively heavy. Long pipelines are expensive to build and maintain. Your end product is vital but still easily and cheaply available through other means in many locations. Desalination plants are essential infrastructure in some larger cities in the middle east already. Requires high population density and lack of alternative resources to really be worth considering.

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