I’ve heard enviro extremists talk about the waste produced by desalination. Most of the waste is the salt and other minerals left over after the water is processed through the plant. They apparently are against dumping the waste which was once in the seawater back into the ocean. Why this is a problem, I just don’t understand.
Can’t those waste products be utilized? There are specialty salts from all over the world advertised in a spice catalog I receive. Just make salt!
The worry is localised increase in the salt content of the Sea: 40KppM instead of 30KppM.
So just dilute it a bit more...
They are playing stupid games to delay projects for their own sick ends.
When pumped into the deep ocean the brine by product has a negligible effect.