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The article mentioned one installation was going to channel brine back to the dead sea, so if you've got a super salty body of water nearby, brine problem = solved!

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False. The Dead Sea is already rapidly drying up due to climate change; pumping even more salt in will only hurt.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-dying-of-th...

This is only true if the brine content being offloaded is greater than that of the Dead Sea now.

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