Let's say the drought lasts for the next fifty years

[nationalize the fed]

8. Maybe sometime before that someone that matters could look around the world and see what others

are doing/have done. America gets a dry spell and people act like it's never happened anywhere else before. It's surreal.

Estimates vary widely between 15,000–20,000 desalination plants around the world producing more than 20,000 m3/day.

Australia: The Millenium Drought (1997–2009) led to a water supply crisis across much of the country. A combination of increased water usage and lower rainfall/drought in Australia caused state governments to turn to desalination. As a result several large-scale desalination plants were constructed (see list).

Israel Desalination Enterprises' Sorek Desalination Plant in Palmachim provides up to 26,000 m³ of potable water per hour (2.300 m³ p.a.). At full capacity, it is the largest desalination plant of its kind in the world.[108][109] Once unthinkable, given Israel's history of drought and lack of available fresh water resource, with desalination, Israel can now actually produce a surplus of fresh water

The Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia provides 50% of the municipal water in the Kingdom, operates a number of desalination plants, and has contracted $1.892 billion[126] to a Japanese-South Korean consortium to build a new facility capable of producing a billion liters per day, opening at the end of 2013. They currently operate 32 plants in the Kingdom;[127] one example at Shoaiba cost $1.06 billion and produces 450 million liters per day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Existing_facilities_and_facilities_under_construction

Taking salt out of water isn't rocket science.

And money shouldn't be an object because right now the US is spending almost $20 million dollars PER HOUR on the wars and "homeland security"

Source: http://costofwar.com