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My controversial take is that the best solution will be to accept that solving the drinking water problem for people is worth worsening the environment for some
by BurningFrog 3y ago
My controversial take is that the best solution will be to accept that solving the drinking water problem for people is worth worsening the environment for some local sea life.
- SonicScrub 3y agoThat local sea life also provides humans with food. So even with the human-centric viewpoint, we have a strong incentive to solve this problem.
- missedthecue 3y agoA poorly implemented runoff would nuke a square km or five of ocean floor with high salinity waste. It would not impact food supply in any discernable way. The ocean is simply too big.
- mikeymz 3y agoWhich ocean? People used to think this about raw sewage discharge. Check the state of UK beaches
- onion2k 3y agoThat's impacting people who want to swim or surf in the sea. It's not impacting food supplies. Fishing boats operate much farther out.
- concordDance 3y agoDid so in person a couple of weekends ago. Looked fine, don't know what you're talking about.
- raducu 3y ago> poorly implemented runoff would nuke a square km or five of ocean floor with high salinity waste. So what is the problem then? We only need to lay pipes to ocean floors that are already not that lively?
- nonethewiser 3y agoWell no, that does not describe the local sea life everywhere.
- MBCook 3y agoWhy does that have to be the solution? Why not further concentrate it through evaporation? Then take that and pour it into old salt mines or spent oil wells? Or natural gas wells?
- Magiccupcake 3y agoFurther concentrated salt solutions deposit in the device, clogging it causing it to not work. You could harvest the salt, but then it is no longer passive.
- ranguna 3y agoThen don't concentrate it on the devices. Dump the water on a drying pool and extract the salt afterwards.
- djtango 3y agoIronically we'd probably need some amount of water to then purify the salt from the other random stuff
- 6510 3y agoNeed distilled water, luckily we were just making that.
- j16sdiz 3y agoYou are underestimating the volume. In that volume, you need a large drying pool.. which is no better than a parking lot.
- nielsbot 3y agocan we just pile it up into a huge salt mountain? and maybe eat some of it?
- imgabe 3y agoOr just sell it as salt? We use, I don’t know, billions of pounds of salt per year in food production?
- comboy 3y agoI don't think humanity is ever really considering environmental impact unless it impacts it somehow. We care about disappearing species which amuse us, which we can see at our scale level, not much below. Some rare lion? Tragedy! Thousands species of fungi living underground which don't impact us directly? Irrelevant. Same goes for climate change and others. We only care if it impacts us in any way, even if only our entertainment. So long story short we probably care about sea life.