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.
And yet the biggest worry with “global warming” is that the melting ice caps will dilute them too much. Now they’re complaining that we’re concentrating the salt to much?
And another level of liberal hypocrisy is revealed, as those who label themselves “progressive” seem to be the ones most opposed to “progress”.
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.