I couldn't believe this was rejected when I heard it. Mind-blowing. Of all the possible ways to get water desalination is by far the least ecologically harmful.

I couldn't believe this was rejected when I heard it. Mind-blowing. Of all the possible ways to get water desalination is by far the least ecologically harmful. You are talking about getting a tiny tiny fraction of water from the giant body of water right next to us instead of a significant fraction of small lakes and rivers many miles away.