Commentary: California should create more water -- much more

[PoliticAverse]

3. You can't be better placed than have your whole state running along the ocean.

But California has been able to get water cheaper than desalinated water costs...

From: https://mywaterearth.com/the-cost-of-desalination/

If properly designed, desalination plants that use RO can consistently deliver high-quality water to consumers. Even more importantly, the quantity of water stored in the ocean is so vast it’s virtually inexhaustible, so desalination is a completely drought-proof source of water. So why don’t cities take advantage of Desalination for the use of drinking water? Is desalination expensive?

Yes-Besides Clean-up cost from operation-Ocean desalination runs between $2,000 & $2,500 an acre-foot-Brackish desalination ranges from $1,000-$2,000. An acre-foot-is 325,851 gals. the amount of water a family of 5 uses per/year, consuming an avg. of 10-13 kilowatt-hrs. (kwh) per 1,000 gals/processed