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Yeah, I've been seeing this as well, from about 20 years ago. It started back when water prices in South America became unaffordable so they made it illegal to collect rain water than ran off your roof into barrels. They can't gouge you for water if you have the means to collect free rain water. Coming to America soon. The corporations want the water.

People who don’t work in or understand water usually believe a million gallons is a lot of water. It’s not. California and Arizona consider 650,000 gallons of water per acre of land deminimus, or below worth considering in the law. That’s enough to grow a healthy lawn for a year. Desal can be done at scale, but it’s not cheap. A smarter future will likely install small modular nuclear reactors in the ocean, but use them for steam generation rather than electricity. We would need to build very tall 1-2000 foot reheating stacks and pump a couple million more gallons of steam into the high troposphere trade winds every day. That might save us for a few more years, but so far only India, China, and the Middle East have started forward thinking on this problem.

Since when is desalination cheap? And what do you do with the brine?