Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Desalination removes salt from water. Removing salt from water can be risky because the process is expensive and slow. Sometimes the technology does not work. A beach community's surface and ground water was decreasing. The community decided to construct a large-scale plant to remove salt from the bay water. The plan to construct a salt-removing plant was accepted because the community  
 (A) needed increased resources. (B) had access to advanced technology. (C) had unlimited financial resources. (D) needed to ease social pressures.
Output (English): A