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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Desalination could certainly be one of the answers. Cruise ships make their own fresh water out of seawater and when you consider that a ship might have over 9,000 people on it often for a week or more, all using water probably even more than they use at home, plus swimming pools, hot tubs, water slides, etc. desalination certainly could serve a whole lot of people especially if they use water sparingly.

However I've read articles by environmentalists who are strongly against desalination as a means of obtaining water. Their claim is that the desalination plants discharge their wastewater, the salinity of which is many times saltier than the original water, right back into the ocean and that poses a danger to marine life, so...

The environmentalists are hypocrites or they would live like cavemen just like they tell everybody else to do.