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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The only way desalination will become very widespread is if our electricity supply increases significantly since desalination requires a very large amount of energy.

That will only happen if we massively increase our solar and/or nuclear energy production.

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