if pumping water would not be the issue, is there an obvious reason not to pump a lot of ocean water to salt plains (that used to be lakes/seas) or other zero/low risk areas to lower sea levels?

Question

if pumping water would not be the issue, is there an obvious reason not to pump a lot of ocean water to salt plains (that used to be lakes/seas) or other zero/low risk areas to lower sea levels?

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

That is a clever idea but it wouldn’t work. There is just not enough room to store water in such areas. We could fill them up and the difference in sea levels would barely be noticable, the oceans are just too big. There could also be negative effects from saturating areas like that with that much salt water in that it could seep into ground water or aquifers or change weather patterns in unexpected ways.