Here’s a thing about LLMs, they will effectively make laws like this meaningless. Law comes in to enforce against a company building a program to block ads, extension goes off market. Someone asks their LLM “create an extension function referencing the same data set for my browser that performs the same function” boom new extension with no central point of distribution. Share the prompt on a forum, now everyone has a custom ad blocker. Or not so far down the road, LLM is directly built into the browser, no extension needed just prompt “do not display known advertisements on pages I request before loading, but perform background activity which gives feedback to the site that ads have loaded” boom done.
In a way, local LLMs are like distributed applications, they make enforcement against specific program functions pretty much impossible.
Basically in areas where desalination is used for mass water production pure water is the resource in shortest supply and therefor osnhigher value than electricity. Wastewater is a potential source to feed RO systems to generate pure water, any water source with a lower concentration of solute than seawater is a potentially more efficient feedstock for the RO purification than seawater. Given that RO purification takes more energy than the energy generation system discussed here, it would be more efficient and therefore cost effective to mix the wastewater into the feed stream and produce a less concentrated brine waste output rather than use it to dilute the brine waste after the fact. The more concentrated the brine output from an RO plant, the more energy it takes to produce due to diminishing returns as the osmotic pressure increases with solute concentration.
There are exceptional cases, as I mentioned, where the composition of the wastewater stream will make it so that concentrating the solute in that stream has an economic incentive greater than the demands for RO water. In those cases diluting the brine may make economic sense. The location of the plant impacts this as well, there may be some edge cases where transporting the brine to the source of wastewater and processing it there on site may have an economic advantage. I’m thinking of nuclear waste and high toxicity chemical plant waste here where release is not an option and storage is mandated, so the waste stream will need to be both segregated from other less toxic waste and stored long term.