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The eco impact of desalination plants is an unknown. Because there effects are very hard to measure, and are often also very specific to the site. however by reading an interview with a dude from the Californian surf riding association about the problems highlighted in America i have found some potential problems for our surf spot!

• Desals use water as coolant and then pump it out into the ocean warm which kills marine life.
• Those creatures who can nit survive high salinity move away form the outlet pipe, and then other creatures move in...normally scavengers which feed on all the dead things which have been fed through the plant and discharged!

there is much more talked about ...check out the above link.