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		digging on Jan 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in ... The waste product is brine. It's an extremely salty sludge that's toxic to marine life. In the same way that fresh water is "just" diluted seawater, but pumping millions of gallons of it into a coastal ecosystem would wipe it out.

photonbucket on Jan 12, 2024 [–]

The pipe should really go a dozen miles out to sea and then get pump-mixed with the destination water

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