Desalination plant to deliver 150 billion litres of water per year
Source. Victoria. Office of the Premier. Media Release
"Australia’s largest desalination plant will be built in the Wonthaggi region to boost water supplies for Melbourne, Geelong, Westernport and South Gippsland by the end of 2011. The second phase of the Government’s water strategy, Our Water Our Future was announced by Premier Steve Bracks to deliver the single biggest boost to Victoria’s water supplies in decades. A desalination plant to provide 150 billion litres of water per year will be built in the Wonthaggi region. The plant will cost an estimated $3.1 billion and be completed by late 2011, and includes an 85 kilometre pipeline connecting it to Melbourne."