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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

As far as I know (which is not a lot in this case), salt isn't really harvested from desalination, and instead the concentrated salt solution (brine) gets deposited back into the ocean, where it can be damaging to marine life in the vicinity of the plant.