(GP/GT) for Additional Water Supply in the Lower Rio Grande

films. Today, nearly half of the bromine supply is derived from seawater, and
the other half comes from deep underground brines in California, Utah, and
Arkansas. In a typical case, a single well flowing at a rate of 20,000 bpd,
and a bromine content of 65 ppm could yield -450 lb (100% extraction) of
bromine, with a market value of -$250/day. The concentrated brines from
desalination effluent are rich sources of various chemicals (Figure 9) whose
economic extraction may be best accomplished by way of accumulation in solar
ponds from which harvesting and processing of the various salts could be
undertaken as at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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