Why does some coastal cities/counties have a problem of lacking drinking water?

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Like California and South Africa, isn’t the principle of water distillation relatively easy? evaporating from one end and cooling it from the other so that it becomes liquid again, leaving all the salt and pollutants behind.

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It is more efficient to treat ‘fresh’ water from rivers but the closer you are to the sea the more crap has gotten in the water. Treatment plants for coastal properties could be miles upstream so you’re depending on the infrastructure in between and you’re also last in line behind everyone further up the pipe. 

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