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Just talking out my ass here, but can't it be combined with, say, treated wastewater? We're taking the salt out of the water in order to "drink" it, but the re
by rconti 3y ago
Just talking out my ass here, but can't it be combined with, say, treated wastewater?
We're taking the salt out of the water in order to "drink" it, but the reality is that most of it gets used for irrigation or toilets or whatever, and eventually returned either as groundwater or to the ocean.
- bruce511 3y agoIn some cases, yes. I know we had a temp desalination running here for a while, and they just mixed the brine with sewerage outflow. Obviously it depends on the location of the sewerage outflow relative to the location of the plant. Of course this only matters at scale. For the suitcase sized device mentioned in the article the amount of brine generated is negligible.
- foxyv 3y agoIt may be better to just treat the waste water and skip the desalination in that case.