Sydney Desalination Provides Cheap Water Safety
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
Australian Plant Provided Every Household a Key Climate-Independent Low-cost Water Source to Last for the Next 100 years
Speaking to D&WR Palmer said: "The fixed costs of $500,000 per day sound high but spread over Sydney's population of 4.5 million they work out to around 11 cents per day per person. For an average household of three people, the weekly cost is $2.30." This he said provided "insurance against any future water restrictions."
"Everybody knows that there will be more droughts in future," Palmer said.
The plant at Kurnell was built following severe droughts in in the region. Palmer said apart from the small Shoalhaven pumping system, there had been no major water supply infrastructure built in Sydney since Warragamba was finished in 1960. Since then the population had increased by more than 50% Palmer said.
Outspoken critic of the cost of the Kurnell plant, Greens MP John Kaye, called also for a decrease in the reservoir level that would trigger th
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