Also, I don't know if there would be the volume of saline water available. It has to be drawn from deep down under the earth. When one looks at the huge volumes that are drawn from the Athabasca River, to obtain comparable volumes over such long periods of time from deep saline aquifers.... They are recharged very slowly. I know that in the Cold Lake area for the in situ operations it's been worked out that there may just be about enough saline water in the aquifer they are using for the three companies that are operating in that area, and they use much less water than is used for the mining. After about 50 years, that deep saline aquifer will probably be exhausted, and then it will take a very long time to recharge because it's so deep. Even the deep saline aquifers are not an inexhaustible supply of water.
