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Desalination pours more toxic brine into the ocean than previously thought
Technology meant to help solve the world's growing water shortage is producing a salty environmental dilemma.
Desalination facilities, which extract drinkable water from the ocean, discharge around 142 billion liters of extremely salty water called brine back into the environment every day, a study finds. That waste product of the desalination process can kill marine life and detrimentally alter the planet's oceans, researchers report January 14 in Science of the Total Environment.
"On the one hand, we are trying to provide populations — particularly in dry areas — with the needed amount of good quality water. But at the same time, we are also adding an environmental concern to the process," says study coauthor Manzoor Qadir, an environmental scientist at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Hamilton, Canada.
I would take some salt, but it probably contains microplastics.
The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook (DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.076) (DX)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @03:57AM (5 children)
Like I said in another post earlier today, the really stupid people simply MUST be sterilized for the good of the rest of humanity.
It's the stupid people who are breeding like rabbits, and they are going to drag the entire earth down with them if they are not stopped.
The above ideas will upset some people, but we will sterilize them first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @04:55AM
Good luck with that, jenius.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:49AM
Didn't we already try that with the b ARC?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:06AM
You first.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @03:17PM
"stupid people simply MUST be sterilized"
This is one reason no one wants to address population controls, far to easy to slip into eugenics, unfair practices. Thanks for confirming their fears.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @08:23PM
Who is going to decide who are stupid? An Anonymous Coward? I'm smarter than everyone in the world and you don't see me bitchin' about ya'!