Study of brine discharge from desalination plant finds good news and bad news

(University of California - Santa Cruz) Before the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Southern California began operations in 2015, scientists at UC Santa Cruz recognized an important opportunity to study the effects of the high-salinity brine that would be discharged from the plant into coastal waters. Their study shows that brine discharged from the plant raises offshore salinity levels more than permitted, but researchers found no direct local impacts on sea life.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 31, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news