[BenLurkin]

The development could spare underdeveloped countries from having to build exotic, expensive pumping stations needed in plants that use a desalination process called reverse osmosis...

Not to mention Southern California!

[theneanderthal]

And every place else with coastal salinity.
Really a bright spot on the horizon.

[Ditto]

Not to mention Southern California!

If you would have lots of cheep water in Southern California, what would happen to all the high paid bureaucrats at LADWP and the politicians who get fat from them?

Those guys don't needs 'solutions.' They make big bucks from problems. You trying to rock the boat or something? ;~))