What facinates me is this...

We are an island surrounded by water. I have no idea how much desalination factories cost, or their carbon footprint and total energy needs, but one would think we would now have the technology to make enough drinking water for our total needs. Perhaps we could even export some of it as we do some of our energy?

Then I just got to thinking why should we have a water shortage at all? Surely we could just dilute it and make it go further! ;-)

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