The first plant at Kwinana is new and unproven. What if it doesn work?
The Kwinana plant is very successful and is delivering around 17 per cent of the water to the Integrated Water Supply Scheme, the State’s largest single water source. Desalination is a proven technology worldwide. The Corporation is ahead of all other states in its understanding of desalination technology and its investigations on the Kwinana plant have been long and thorough. There are more than 14,000 desalination plants delivering drinking water worldwide. Along with the 45 gigalitre Kwinana plant, which has been successfully operating since 2006, the Corporation operates a number of reverse osmosis plants in country WA. It also owns and operates the Kwinana Water Reclamation Plant – the biggest water recycling plant of its kind in WA. The reclamation plant reduces industry demand for scheme water by up to six gigalitres a year, which is equivalent to about two per cent of Perth’s total scheme water use. The Southern Seawater Desalination Plant will be similar to the plant in Kwinan
