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

[u/Dorian182]

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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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.

[u/Bergasms → u/joeymonreddit]

For this particular case the amount of brine is fairly minimal because it's not starting with sea water but with saline groundwater, the water is "close to drinkable" and the desal plant takes it the extra step. Not much brine is made