Adelaide’s desal plant: catastrophe for marine ecosystems?

ABC News

Environmentalists fear that Adelaide’s proposed billion dollar desalination plant in the St Vincent Gulf will have catastrophic effects on the local marine ecosystem. The plant is expected to discharge 50 billion litres of saline water each year, and this is predicted to kill the sea grasses that stabilise the marine environment. The plant is considered essential by SA’s Government to safeguard Adelaide’s water supply, but protesters fear that the plans are being pushed through without enough studies or consultation in order to meet the target of having the plant online by the end of 2011.

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