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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:08AM (2 children)
Where does it go? Into outer space?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @11:48AM
everbody knows that water can only return SALTY to the ocean because we PEE it out and there's salt in PEE!
the rain you see is acctually water vapor falling from mars on earth. there's less and less water on mars everyday!
soon, with all the PEEing, earth will turn into a lump of SALT!
the only good part is that planet SALT will attract SPACE COWS that living in between planets to give it a good lick!
(Score: 2) by Rich26189 on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:25PM
No, it's stored in ugly bags of water.