That's asinine, completely irrelevant, and lacks any intelligence, thought or common sense. Though Big war/MIC is real, it's got little to do with desalination plants, further, the military industrial complex is a drop in the bucket compared to big healthcare, where fat cash goes.

Our government systems, services, and incentives in the U.S. are much different, and beyond that each state is different than others.. San Diego had been working on desal plants for a number of years(Poseidon I think) and then canned them after further perceived government state/local intervention, that was after the 20 years or so it went through the process of trying to get cal regulatory permits to begin the process of building them, lawsuits, etc.

After the continued fights, San Diego water utilitiy shut them all down, after realizing that, with all the government subsidies and public water utility structure, it's far cheaper to truck in water from the Colorado river or nearby states than invest in useful technology for the future.

Until those incentives are removed and the people or the utilities pay and charge a real price for things, it's not likely to change anytime soon. Monterey, and several other northern California area didn't go nearly as far as they did in San Diego in their projects before they scrapped as unfeasible. With NIMBYs, special interest groups, and what's more, massive government regulation, desal plants aren't a priority nor are they necessary.

With all the humblebragging from cal about being 1/5 the nation's economy, I think it's silly for neighbouring states to give away their water to the folks who've chosen to live in a desert for pennies, but who knows..