@raedenvhero@mmghenyi_ You make good points my friend and I will have to agree with you. Desalination is a young tech and it will keep getting better and cheaper with time. When it gets cheap enough, it will unlock earth's biggest resource; the oceans
@raedenvhero@mmghenyi_ For drinking water, they may be compared ($0.50/m3 vs $0.10/m3 for normal water treatment), since in both models, you must treat the water. For irrigation, which would the main use (volume wise), dams win hands down.
@raedenvhero@mmghenyi_ Actually, the biggest cost for desalination plants is opex for power and filters. Hard to beat dams in terms of long term cost per unit.