As to impact the quality of brine is less important than the amount of surplus salt. Sea water is ~3.5% salt. You need 1:1 fresh water produced to get back to the default at discharge. While a significant fraction of the water produced would be lost as evaporation etc, desalination is not their only source of water.
Edit: Digging into the numbers it looks like Saudi Arabia is not limiting things to cities which have a closer relationship between water and sewage production.
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