the $85 million plan to desalinate water for drought relief
- Written by Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
The deal to crank up Adelaide’s desalination plant to make more water available to farmers in the drought-stricken Murray-Darling Basin makes no sense.
It involves the federal government paying the South Australian government up to A$100 million to produce more water for Adelaide using the little-used desalination plant.
The plant was...