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Double the salinity? Other comments suggest it’s only slightly more salty than sea water. Only a very small fraction of water is isolated from a very amount o

• wongarsu 3y ago
  The article states > Modern desalination plants generally recover about half of the intake flow, which means their brine stream is about twice the concentration of normal seawater. I imagine this heavily depends on the actual plant design though. Also because of the above mentioned issues you generally don't discharge it like that but blend it with other water.