The push to desalinate - Victoria to build Australia's largest desalination plant ...

The list of planned, under construction or built desalination plants continues to grow:

- Perth
- South Australia
- Sydney
- Gold Coast

and now Melbourne.

Excerpt from news.com.au:

Victoria to build biggest desal plant

19 June 2007

The Victorian Government will build the country's largest desalination plant in the state's south and a 70km pipeline from the Goulburn area to boost Melbourne's water supply.

The desalination plant will be built in the Wonthaggi region, southeast of Melbourne, at a cost of $3.1 billion. It is expected to provide 150 billion litres of water a year for Melbourne, Geelong, Westernport and Wonthaggi.

The pipeline from the state's north will cost $750 million and is aimed at transferring 75 billion litres of water to Melbourne by 2010.
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See - List of desalination plants grows.

Premier Beattie's push to force SEQ residents to drink recycled water is looking more and more like the ultimate way of capping interstate migration to the south east corner of Qld ...