It isn't so much that it's hard to do, but it's hard to do cheaply enough to make it economically feasible. Most methods take a lot of energy, others are relatively slow.

In every case though, desalination on a large scale leaves you with all the salt and minerals that you remove from the water. It's difficult to find somewhere inexpensive to dump those without it screwing up the local ecosystem.

> Fuck you, Steve.

Care to elaborate?

Not necessarily. My wife's cell phone has a 203 prefix. As far as I know, she isn't running any phone scams.

There are a lot of scams that are spoofing actual phone numbers. We've gotten quite a few that are supposedly from our own town, including two that had us as the caller ID.

In case anyone is curious, I found the doc that this is referencing here.