Sydney’s Controversial Desalination Plant is Going Live!
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Sydney’s controversial desalination plant is likely to become fully operational within days, for the first time in its history.
The plant will provide drinking water for most suburbs south of Sydney Harbour and as far west as Bankstown.
The “trigger point” for the desalination plant to become operational is 60 per cent water levels at Warragamba Dam, it currently sits at 60.3 per cent.
The plant was heavily criticised by the Liberal and National Party during its construction as a "white elephant”, and has been costing around $166 million a year to be kept in "hibernation". It’s been “switched on” for test periods but has never supplied any drinking water to the Sydney basin.
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