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by enoch_r
1032 days ago
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The US consumes about 322 billion gallons of water per day. There are about 66.5 cubic centimeters of salt in a gallon of water. If we bury the salt in 200-foot deep landfills, that's a total of roughly 32k acres per year, less than 2% of the total landfill capacity in the US (which is roughly 1.8M acres, less than 0.1% of the total land area, so there's plenty of room for more landfills if necessary). And of course that's assuming we use desalination for 100% of water use in the entire US. |
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