That is still only 1.7B gallons of water total. ~7M cubic meters or ~5200 acre-foot. Bulk desalinated water is ~0.50 $/m^3, so that is only $3.5M of water. I g

That is still only 1.7B gallons of water total. ~7M cubic meters or ~5200 acre-foot. Bulk desalinated water is ~0.50 $/m^3, so that is only $3.5M of water. I guess you could charge them $3.5M for their water usage? https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/irrigation-water-use/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/ir... To compare with farming, farming averages ~1.5 acre-foot per acre of irrigated land, so that is only ~3,500 acres of farmland which is a lower-middle size farm. The US irrigates around 58M acres, so that is around 0.006% (6/100,000) of US agricultural water usage.