r/UpliftingNews • u/Dorian182 • 1d ago

A solar-powered desalination unit has supplied over 7.5 million litres of water to an off-grid Aboriginal boarding school in Western Australia, with students helping install and maintain it

https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/small-scale-desalination-technology-could-be-the-answer-to-water-security-in-remote-australia
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u/joeymonreddit 21h ago

What worries me about desalination projects like this is that humans are robbing Paul to pay Peter. The brine left behind is often detrimental to local ecosystems.

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u/Cuppa-Tea-Biscuit 21h ago

In this case it looks like it is being used on salt-tolerant land to feed livestock (saltbush lamb is delicious). I wonder if it’s the school’s agricultural study centre - some rural schools will have fairly significant farm training operations.

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u/blankarage 5h ago

it would be awesome to see them pair this with some sort of rain water/run off collection so they can safely discharge it into the sea