If Desalination is the "Solution," Then What is the Problem?

You define the problem and you can define the solution.

Instead of defining the problem as water waste and irrational exuberance by developers, the Florida Trend article (below) defines the "problem" as being a "water shortage" and defines the "solution" as promiscuous consumption of fossil or nuclear energy to take salt out of the oceans and pump de-salted ocean water around FLorida.

That defies logic.

When it comes to destroying Northeast FLorida's coasts, "just say whoa!"