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Flood Saltwater Deserts with Seawater
Australian Lake Torrens
If you want water in inland regions, and you have a desalination technology that uses salt water as an energy source, you can irrigate land with fresh water if it is located next to a salt water basin. Evaporation and rain will wash the surrounding land of salt contamination. Salt Deserts are a liability if left dry, because of the salt blowing over fertile land. Flooding them with seawater will do no harm, because the desert is already saturated with salt.
A list of salt deserts
Dasht-e Lut Iran
Salt Lake USA
Lake Eyre Australia
Sua Pan Africa
Laguna Salada USA/Mexico
Dead Sea
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