This thesis project will focus on how a desalination plant can benefit the environment. As population grows, climate changes, and local water scarcity heighten, desalination of brackish water and seawater is increasingly considered as an option for a source of fresh water to meet anticipated demand. Desalination could also help restore water levels in places such as Lake Mead, where insufficient rain and snowfall in the Rocky Mountains have caused the lake water level to fall well below drought levels. Finding innovative ways to use the remaining salt in architectural application, such as building non-load bearing walls, could then help lower the rising salinity of seawater caused by global warming and pollution.