Do folks here understand the expense and energy use associated with desalination plants?

[CreekDog]

145. i don't know why there's all this insistence on using and moving as much water as we do

honestly if we can conquer all the issues with that, is it really the best use of our abilities to just maintain a system where we use just as much water as we do and use just as much energy moving it around as we do?

we can save water by using less and not even feeling a big difference from using less, a lot of high quality water is literally wasted

if we can develop all these technologies, they should be used on human betterment, transportant, education and other challenges.

even in a drought, we have enough water to supply our cities, we have enough water in our systems to supply agriculture

we just have to be smarter about the excesses in our system and not use our best water for those excesses. eliminate the high intensity irrigated agriculture for something more appropriate to California.

use the good water for our urban domestic uses, but use lesser water for irrigation, and reuse it!

there, now we don't need to invent new technology for this.