A state of Fools, run by Fools. They have all the water they need just off the coast.
Desalination uses a small amount of fossil fuels which emit a small amount of carbon emissions that the California government insists caused the drought in the first place.
The desalination process itself does not pollute the ocean with high concentration salt brine. Their is no proof that this process kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life.
Amen. I live is San Diego, and the county recently opened its first desalination plant. Took 13 years(!) to jump through all the legal & permitting hoops to bring it on line. If the county had only seven of these plants, it would provide the fresh water needs for all 3.5 million residents.
Keep repeating the lie long enough and it becomes the truth.
The salt can be put aside and processed for other uses.
It often contains useful materials in small quantities.
Ocean water contains uranium, thorium, etc etc.
Process enough salt out of seawater, melt the salt, skim off the heavier material, reprocess that for useful stuff, turn the salt into table salt.
Supposedly sea salt is the current “healthy salt du jour” with certain crowds.
Market the recovered salt to them, at a markup of course.