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What drought?

Victoria’s desalination plant is a reminder of the perils of making public policy in a panic

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

At the height of the ten-year drought, when it looked like Melbourne might never again get the kind of rains needed to fill its dams and rivers, the then Labor government panicked and commissioned the construction of Australia’s largest desalination plant along Victoria’s Gippsland coast, east of Melbourne, to turn sea water into fresh water.

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