Desalination around the world- how other countries are making fresh water from the ocean

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11. That would be a fossil fueled or nuclear kilowatt hours?

A solar or wind desalinization plant is expensive. Either the plant only works when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing, or else you have to add the cost of storage schemes to the total cost of the system.

For irrigation in arid climates that's very expensive water even at 4 to 8 cents kwh. Farmers in the U.S.A. would typically measure their water use in acre feet. An acre foot is 325,851 US gallons.

A golf course in Southern California might use 400-800 acre feet of water annually. Is it really a good idea to build a fossil-fueled desalinization plant to support uses like that?