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"Absurdly Cheap" compared with what?

They give desal cost (not final price!) as USD 0,75 / m3.

USD 250 / acre-foot for delivered water in the San Joaquin Valley is USD 0,20 / m3.

So I'll grant them "cheap", but at more than 3x, defo not "absurdly" so.

https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/News/File...

This is still about 1/3 the price of city water is lots of the EU. People make less than half that of Americans and people manage. People will just use less damned water, which is a good thing.

It _should_ be stupidly expensive to keep your yard green in Tx in the summer. Americans are living with artificially low prices for so many things.

Absurdly cheap to a billionaire who's never given AF about ordinary, let alone poor, people.

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