Comment on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months agoAnd guess where all that water ends up?
It’s a closed circle so if you don’t transport the water far away it should just go back to the sea.
Also the sea is kind of large…
Khotetsu@lib.lgbt 11 months ago
It’s not about the global or countrywide scale. It’s about the local scale. If you take a cup of salt and eat it, it’s going to end back up in the ocean eventually, but it’ll make you sick before it gets there. Dumping salt into an area is going to screw with the ecosystem in that area, in a major way. We actually have similar problems in many areas due to stuff like fertilizer runoff from people’s lawns during rainstorms, causing toxic algae blooms in ponds and around beaches.