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More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries

  • Written by Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University
More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheriesGonzalo Buzonni/Shutterstock

From around 1996 to 2010, Australia was gripped by the millennium drought. As water shortages bit hard, most of Australia’s capital cities built large seawater desalination plants – Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Remote towns have also built smaller desalination plants.

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