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> Desalination plants + solar + salt drying flats seems like a no brainer for California. You'd think so. And yet... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/californ

• bergenty 4y ago
  It’s the last bit that’s causing the problem. A lot of desalination plants dump highly concentrated saline solutions back into the ocean. Pump those out to salt pans and you’re also producing salt.
• ncmncm 4y ago
  It should be easy to mitigate any environmental impact. A long, leaky pipe for effluent, and extracting only a fraction of the water pumped in before exhausting it, would eliminate any problem. Probably they planned to cheap out and just dump the brine at the shore.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    It’s not easy to pull a permit for a bathroom update in California.