The best thing about the discussion is almost to a person, the people who advocate for expensive energy deride this as too expensive.
It reveals the true motivations of such people.
But US environmental groups have fought construction of new desalination plants in the courts, saying the consequences of reintroducing brine to the ocean have not been adequately studied."And when water is being drawn from the ocean, it brings fish and other organisms into the machinery - and that has an environmental and economic impact," says Wenonah Hauter, head of Food and Water Watch in Washington DC.