Water Corporation opens desalination plant in Australia

Water utility Water Corporation has opened the new Southern Seawater Desalination Plant, which is located in Binningup, Western Australia, three months ahead of schedule.

The project was built at a cost of $955m and will produce 50 billion litres of fresh water for the state.

The utility will now work to double the capacity to 100 billion litres a year by 2012-13.

The plant has already started to provide water for the state’s integrated water supply scheme, which will reach full capacity in a year’s time, reports AAP.