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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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:05AM (1 child)
Did they change it? They must have changed it. Because it doesn't say staff anymore. It says "By Jeremy Rehm." And, it says Jeremy's the intern. Otherwise known as the Apprentice. That's one of our great traditions. Remember Monica Lewinsky? She did her job and she did it well. According to my friend Bill. And, Jeremy's doing fine. He's in the Magazine business. Very tough business. Every issue they have so many Column Inches they need to fill. And they can fill it with a story about me signing the Save our Seas Act. Working very hard to keep the Garbage Plastics away from Hawaii, from Wash., Ore. & Calif. Or they can fill it with "oh, our Oceans are dieing from too much Salt!" They wanted the Salt story. And that's not Jeremy's fault. Any more than it was Monica's fault that her boss wanted a Knob Polishing. She did as she was told. And he does, I assume, as he's told.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:27AM
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