RE:LOLGreat PEA if it happens. At the moment, not saying in the future there won't be, there are no clay formation/lithium mines in production around the globe. The price of lithium, and it very well may, needs to be much higher, for a scalable large clay lithium mine.
The piping of water will require a lot of permits, if they can get them. First and foremost, the company will need water-rights, or get them from someone who has them. Not an easy task, or done in a short time period.
Aberrmarle, multi-billion dollar company, who have water rights, may be interested in the resource down the road, if it becomes cheaper to produce clay formation lithium, rather than shipping lithium from Chile/Argentina. Again, price of lithium will dictate the development of clay lithium. Price of lithium and water-rights are the big question mark here moving forward.