California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I assume the salt and untreated effluents will be dealt with the usual way - pumped into the ocean. Eventually the pollution will need to be cleaned up. It's the capitalist circle of life.

    • Soap_Owl [any]
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      2 years ago

      I hope they truck it to the salton sea. Just get real wild with it.

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      stonks based thinking informs me that with enough water desallination plants we don't really need rivers and stuff like that so just dump everywhere inland and make cool sculptures out of salt

    • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      We can use the salt to seal up the nuclear waste we don’t know what to do with. I’m sure nothing bad could come out of this arrangement.