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They say, among other things, that desalted water is of uncertain quality and has high energy costs.

Has the only on Polish coast aquapark with desalted sea water.

But half of the desalted water would probably be sold to surrounding water districts.

And the desalted sea water the country uses to supply its cities is far too costly for irrigation use - even for the Saudis.

In its new plan for the decade ahead, Tampa Bay now envisions desalted sea water providing about 10 percent of the region's freshwater needs.

"In the U.S., the cost of desalted water still tends to be prohibitive when compared with natural resources, but that's only when they are natural," he said.

Even at the most efficient plants, a thousand gallons of desalted water costs around $2 to produce, twice the typical cost of water pumped from underground aquifers or other freshwater sources.

But continuing technological innovation has now pushed the price for desalted seawater down to $2 for a thousand gallons, compared with $6 a decade ago, with experts forecasting further reductions.

People drink desalted ocean water in some Caribbean hotels and in big swaths of Saudi Arabia, and local authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Key West, Fla., have toyed with the process at times.

By the time he had lugged the boy a good distance down the shore and cleaned him off-first using the salty water, and then using some desalted water that left him with a headache-and returned, Ayrlyn had biscuits and cheese laid out for them.