Why don't use desalination more? Israel seems to be very successful in water desalination and helping California. Spore got consult Israel?
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0TZ1LU20151216
Wed Dec 16, 2015 | 7:12 AM EST
IDE plans more U.S. desalination plants after California success
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By Ari Rabinovitch | JERUSALEM
(Reuters) - Israel's IDE Technologies, which opened this week a billion-dollar desalination plant in California, is helping to plan 10 new facilities throughout the United States, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.
Together with U.S. partner Poseidon Water, IDE has just completed the country's largest desalination plant, located on the Pacific coast in the city of Carlsbad. It will supply much needed drinking water for 300,000 households, alleviating the area's water shortage.
Yet it may just be the first of eight more plants being planned for California, of which IDE is involved in three, said CEO Avshalom Felber. IDE's others are in Texas and Florida.
"It's the start of a solution," Felber told Reuters. "And once you have a successful plant like this, it raises our profile in the United States."
Desalination has emerged as a promising technology in the face of a record dry spell gripping California for several years, depleting its reservoirs and aquifers and raising the costs of importing water from elsewhere.