MIT: Megascale Desalination-World’s largest & cheapest reverse-osmosis desalination plant

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6. Once again, it appears they don't take agricultural use into account with their claims

The numbers presented in your article don't square unless they're only discussing municipal consumption, not total national consumption: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries_regions/isr/index.stm

And almost 60% of Israel's water demands are from agricultural irrigation and livestock needs.

Desalination is suitable for supplementing city water demands. It is not even close, however, to being a replacement for total water needs, unless a state or nation has almost no agriculture to speak of.