Final comment on this. When you drill a hole in Saudi Arabia you have an oil well in most cases. When you drill a hole here you're more opt to find water. Desalinazation plants have to be on the coastline otherwise you have to have expensive pipelines. A desalinazation plant is prohibitively expensive. And you cannot compete with the Ozarka Company next door that is hooked up to city water supplies or Desani or whoever. They pay the water bill, filter it then bottle it, and it's out the door. The great expense is moving the water hence pipelines. Talk to a lawyer about pipeline right-aways and he will roll his eyes at the difficulties. At this point unless it is adjacent to a plant, it would be impossible to compete with water companies. It is much cheaper to filter water than desalinate it. A company that get's water for a nickel, then decides to pay fifty cents for the same water they could buy for a nickel, in my guess -- would sound like a government run business. One that commonly runs in red ink and would need tax payer funding. You can't move feasible amounts of water without a pipeline to a lake or river or whatever. Two thousand trips in an 18-wheeler's not going to get it done.
Investigate the price of a 100 miles of pipelines and the cost of right aways. Exelon has substantial money, and they let that pass from one ear out the other in the blink of an eye

Desalinating water is nothing new. From the triple-expansion steam motors of the dreadnought era battleships, it is alive and well. I can break the process down easily if you like. It was considered an option to tide the stem of people complaining about Victoria's lack of water when the nuclear plant was in debate. The major cost -- which proves very prohibitive, Purchasing pipeline right-aways(the land)and laying a 36 inch pipeline to the coast. Since nobody wants to build a nuclear plant on the coast line, henceforth it necessitates a pipeline and pumping stations to bring the fresh water inland. If the Desalination plant is near the coastline, fresh water can be pumped inland. Pumping corrosive saltwater long distances is also prohibitive due to pipeline maintenance and cathodic protection needs. That's the major gridlock there.
Radioactive waste is stored in a swimming pool like tank that is covered adjacent to Nuclear plants before it is shipped to approved storage areas. Boring a hole deep in the ground is always a concern for nuclear waste as it can contaminate groundwater. Many experts feel the true achilles tendon of todays nuclear plants is the storage facilities adjacent to the plants.