This is pretty much the most pressing concern in any desalination effort.. Intakes and discharges are expensive in general, but to adequately dilute a brine di

This is pretty much the most pressing concern in any desalination effort.. Intakes and discharges are expensive in general, but to adequately dilute a brine discharge is on the order of 5x the cost of the intake system. You basically need miles of pipe into the ocean that split off like a fan in order to not significantly disrupt nearby ecosystems.