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According to Wikipedia it's really cheap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Economics



Rainwater is cheaper. IF you look at how much residential users pay, then yeah you see that desalinization would not break the bank, but most water is for farms and they get it by the acre-foot.




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