I do agree that desalination process consumes lots of energy and is expensive, but we have to get our priorities right. India is blessed with a large coastline and we got to make use of that resource. We have money to spend on luxury goods but no one is willing to pay for water. Let us get our priorities right, we spend lot of money to drink mineral water, I am sure people will pay for desalinated water. it is just a question of working the economics out and setting a tariff that is affordable and ensuring that there are no leakages in the system(no T&D losses like power theft).
