California is sinking as it sucks remaining water out of underground aquifers

I get what you’re saying. What I’m saying is that it’s not enough. It’s not a question of throwing money into it. I don’t think there exists enough money to make desalination work at the scales you need in the timeframe you need. There’s no Yankee-ingenuity-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps-elbow-grease-sweat-of-the-brow solution for this.