Desalination is a process to make seawater drinkable water and not harmful.  California is and has been in a severe drought for many years now, and there simply isn’t enough water for the nearly 40 million people who live in that state. The use of desalination is mostly located in the Middle East, which is where 60% of over 7,500 plants are located.  Seawater would be of great use for California because not only is California located on the Pacific coast, it would solve the drought crisis. 97 percent of the world’s water is seawater, which could be used to help create more drinking water for humans.  The problem for California is the cost of building these desalination plants, however as technology advances there are decreases in the price.  If there are close to 40 million people living in California and this drought has been continuing for so many years, why hasn’t the state started to invest in it more?  Desalination could be the answer to this long lasting problem, and I think California needs to look at the overall outcome that these plants could bring rather than t he cost. Soon enough there will not be enough water for everyone, and then we’ll all wish we had invested more in these plants so that we could have water.  What do you think about this issue and do you think desalination is the answer?

Also I'd like to note that all of this information was found from: http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water_ … nkable.htm  I definitely suggest looking at desalination for it is an interesting process and something that I think will become a much bigger thing within the next ten years.