Persian Gulf has 20% more salt in water because of the humans which are throwing the oversalinated waste back into the sea. Dehidrated salt may be a big deal for some areas because of no waste into input.

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Jblx2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Persian Gulf has 20% more salt in water because of the humans

I would like to read more about this from an authoritative source.

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tdb7893 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Through the magic of Googling "Persian Gulf salinity" it seems like it's more that it's a shallow Gulf in a dry area so it has significant evaporation. Desalination does effect it but it's only a few percent of the total evaporation (which is still surprisingly big) and doesn't sound like the main driving factor or an imminent ecological concern.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14635...

	▲	MyHonestOpinon 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		pardon my ignorance. But, all that salt was there already. right? Is it that we have less water there now ?
	▲	Jblx2 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I thought the HN-way was to be more charitable than just directly calling out obvious bullshit.

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