News Headline
Slaking the World’s Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans
Source
Scientific American
Publication Date
2019-02-07
Growing populations and tightening water supplies have spurred people in many places—including the Middle East, Australia, California and China—to look to the oceans and other salty waters as a source of new drinking water. But desalination plants are energy intensive and create a potentially environment-harming waste called brine (made up of concentrated salt and chemical residues), which is dumped into the ocean, injected underground or spread on land.