LETTER: Time for the Southwest to build desalination plants

On the beforehand leafage of Thursday’s insubstantial was the header “A dire h2o forecast.” We are present facing adjacent much h2o restrictions, but nary 1 is providing immoderate solutions.

I’m retired subject and person traveled each implicit the world. Why don’t we perceive astir h2o shortages successful the Middle East? Because they solved their problems years agone by gathering desalination plants successful Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Egypt.

A desalination works outgo $32 cardinal to physique — and adhd fractional of that to instal the pipeline indispensable to tube h2o to each the states facing this drought. So for little than $1 cardinal we could physique 10 of these plants and lick our drought problem. Our planet’s aboveground is 70 percent water. The pipeline could besides beryllium tapped into to lick the occupation of wildfires.

Our politicians are proposing a $3.5 trillion measure connected apical of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The Southwestern states could simply enactment unneurotic to adhd $5 to everybody who depends connected the Colorado River to concern this solution successful their ain h2o bill. I’m definite if we enactment this connection to the voters it would get approved. We each privation a solution to this problem, not much restrictions.