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How Seawater Desalination Works [06:41] (youtu.be)

If deadpool is reached, all these people and industries in the southwest will need to get their H2O from somewhere. Fortunately for them, they have billions of acre feet of H2O right there in the Pacific. They'll just need to take the salt out.

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Distillation has been used for hundreds (or thousands) of years to get freshwater from saltwater. The big problem apparently is the leftover brine, which is difficult and costly to dispose at scale. In RO there is also leftover brine but it is not nearly as concentrated, and is suitable to discharge right back into the ocean in the right circumstances, even at scale.

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The big problem is the energy needed to evaporate the water. Any desalination method leaves you with salt to dispose of.

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Lake Mead provides water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada as well as some of Mexico, providing sustenance to nearly 20 million people and large areas of farmland. If the reservoir dips below 895 feet — Lake Mead would reach dead pool, carrying enormous consequences for millions of people across Arizona, California, Nevada and parts of Mexico. Experts from the Bureau of Reclamation say Lake Mead stands at a tier 1 shortage, and have predicted that Lake Mead will reach a tier 2 level by 2023 and a tier 3 level possibly in 2024.

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