Sentences with phrase «saline water discharged»
Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.
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Brine from the desalination plant would be discharged into the already - saline Dead Sea, replenishing water that is evaporating from the lake at a rate of more than 1 meter per year.
However, with improving techniques, researchers recently estimated total submarine groundwater (saline and fresh water combined) discharges suggesting a rate 3 to 4 times greater than the observed global river runoff, or a volume equivalent to 331 mm / year (13 inches) of sea level rise.
Nonetheless more than 90 % of that submarine discharge is saline sea water, most of which is likely recirculated sea water, and not likely to affect sea level.