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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 fakefuck39 on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:28PM
Yes, completely agree, however that was not my point. What you mention is nowhere in the article. The article claims that desalination apparently removes a lot of H2O from the water - water that apparently does not go back into the ecosystem. I'd guess by destroying the molecule of water, but I doubt the people who wrote it know what a chemical reaction is, so I think they think drinking water is what destroys water. Once inside the body, it's gone my friends. Magic. And magnets - how the fuck does that work?!
What you state is a bunch of people living in a toilet shitting into that toilet, making it more of a toilet. This is actually the perfect result one would want from desalination. Sandniggers in the persian gulf destroying their own little toilet bowl, and their shit staying there, not leaving the gulf? Awesome. As a bonus, we kill off Israel (and I say that as a jew).
The article claims desalination is destroying the world's oceans. They're using "big numbers" of salty water with chemicals like "omg copper" and "omg chlorine" which actually evaporates. They fail to mention any percentages - a super small number. Completely false.
That's like saying 36mil people die from hunger. Huge number. Half a percent? Small number. No one dies from hunger in the world. It's like those anti-smoking commercials that list chemicals in the cig filter to convince idiots how bad cigs are, then say your chance of lung cancer increases 10x so you'll surely get it if you smoke. Yeah, it does increase it 10x. From 1% to 10% - apparently 10% is "sure death."
There are malicious people w/ an agenda, and complete retards who fail basic logic. This article was written by the second group. Idiot "journalists" who major in liberal arts, and can't even get a job writing for a local newspaper so they post their idiocy online while paying rent making me my coffee.