There is a mature start-up company located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at the SLSL facility that can desalinate salt water as a free byproduct of generating highly competitive zero pollution electricity 24/7. Keep this valuable mining operation instead of selling it off to a unknown company. Partner or license the technology that has offered to help restore the Salton Sea. Read the article called "Turning Seawater into Electricity" by CBC News-New Brunswick-Canada on January 8, 2018.