[Dilbert San Diego]

I heard part of the justification, is that desalination returns the by products back to the ocean, and pollutes the ocean.

But the by products they are concerned with, are the salt and brine and other substances which were in the sea water in the first place.

Their view is that we are adding pollutants to the ocean, by returning substances back to the ocean which were there originally.

[BiglyCommentary]

But they could use the salt to salt their fields and destroy their food supply. Must be the B team state destroyers in charge of this

[cuban leaf]

Kinda idiotic when you think about it.

Also, there is this: https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-hydroxide-0213

[jjotto]

Desalination ‘waste’ can be made into sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid, which are in demand as industrial chemicals.

[5th MEB]

Same stupid reasoning that killed gold dredging in California!

Water, sand and gravel in river bottom is sucked up by dredge, water sand and gravel is returned to river, minus heavy metals (including polluting mercury) which are kept in dredge!

Some really STUPID PEOPLE IN CHARGE IN CALIFORNIA!!!!

[5th MEB]

Same stupid reasoning that killed gold dredging in California!

Water, sand and gravel in river bottom is sucked up by dredge, water sand and gravel is returned to river, minus heavy metals (including polluting mercury) which are kept in dredge!

Some really STUPID PEOPLE IN CHARGE IN CALIFORNIA!!!!

[Organic Panic]

We don’t want to pollute the ocean with all that dihydrogen monoxide now do we?

[JimRed]

But the by products they are concerned with, are the salt and brine and other substances which were in the sea water in the first place.

Just like they call CO2, the natural product of plant, animal and human respiration a pollutant. MORONS!

[Graybeard58]

But the by products they are concerned with, are the salt and brine and other substances which were in the sea water in the first place.

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Isn’t there a market for sea salt? I see it in grocery stores, plus millions of tons of salt used on our country’s roads. Salt used on roads doesn’t have to be particularly clean either.

[mikey_hates_everything]

“ I heard part of the justification, is that desalination returns the by products back to the ocean, and pollutes the ocean.”

Just like evaporation which is how we get rain.

[Amendment10]

"Their view is that we are adding pollutants to the ocean, by returning substances back to the ocean which were there originally."

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Doesn't sunlight naturally evaporate water from ocean, the evaporated water forming clouds which then rain over land? Practically no difference between natural water cycles and desalination?

Corrections, insights welcome.