Can Desalination Save the Southwest?

And the bigger lesson...

For the past 70 or so years, settlers have been pouring into the US Southwest, some to retire in the sun, others to farm the desert, and still others to work in the casinos and hotels that are sprouting like mushrooms out there.

But there’s a fatal flaw in this mass migration: All of the above takes water, and that is running out.

A Little History

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