Desalinization at scale produces a LOT of brine. Like, way more than anyone needs. The evaporation pools would need to be gargantuan to service SoCal. State of

Desalinization at scale produces a LOT of brine. Like, way more than anyone needs. The evaporation pools would need to be gargantuan to service SoCal. State of California uses about 5maf of water (non-ag; with agriculture, much much more). That's is 6 cubic km of brine, per year. Say we service SoCal, that's 3 km^3 of brine per year... The entire salton sea is 7km^3. And that is only residential/commercial use like drinking water. Which basin don't we care about? The desert is not "outside the environment" especially at that scale. There are critters living even in the most godforsaken areas of Anza Borrego. We are talking an environmental catastrophe, something like the Aral Sea.