Comments by "Andre Falksmen" (@andrefalksmen1264) on "Geography By Geoff" channel.

  1. Not even close, desalination is three orders of magnitude, three hundred times, more expensive than pumping water.
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  2. You forgot the part that crops need sunshine to grow at a desert has ample Sunshine. If you can control the water and apply fertilizer, the desert is the perfect place to grow crops which is why California supplies 70% of the US with its food.
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  3. Desalination is not economically viable option, it would cost close to 2.4 billion dollars a year to disseminate enough water to replace the cuts from the Colorado River alone, that's a mere 4.4 million acre-feet of water.
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