I don't understand the lack of foresight to create Nuclear Power Plants near the ocean and power Desalinization Plants - providing water from the ocean.
Judging from TEPCO's problems in Japan I'd just as soon they didn't. Before you bash the Japs for their lack of foresight, that plant was designed by General Electric. They thought they had covered all the bases too, a fact which does nothing to increase my confidence in mankind's ability to forestall all circumstances.
Once you let a pissed off cat out of the bag, it's pure hell to get him stuffed back in.............