It&#x27;s ludicrous to suggest that fresh water will ever be more expensive than gas. The price of gas would have to drop by a factor of about a thousand to get to the realistic maximum price for fresh water (the cost of producing water via desalination).<p>Of course, farmers are so used to cheap water that it would be a huge shock to the agricultural economy for the price of water to rise to even 1&#x2F;1000th the price of gas.