Back in November Captain Bigh decided that a desla plant would be built at Marcoola . Communities against desalanation an be found at the web site below .
A few of you raised concerns about this Desal plant .
Keep in mind Desal plants use enormous amounts of energy to produce fresh water. The Salt resdue must go some where and the no Brainers have decide out to sea it must go .Good Bye to the marine world as we know it. Good bye to beautiful beaches . Hello to Dumb Politicians
Captain Bligh then plans to Pump the water to Bne and as we sailors know water is very heavy so she is going to use more power . She wants to destroy national parks by cutting Pipe lines through the forest .http://cadi.org.au/
We need your support to stop this nonsence which has been largely bought about by poor planning and project deferral .
If you could hit web site and down load a form and scan back to cadi , all of us sea lovers will thank you.
Fair winds Hivolts
How to speed up the demise of the planet, (1) set up a desal plant.
Oh thats it, by by.
How many of these things already exist?
We've got one here, and it's supposed to be wind farm powered. A 2nd is in the pipeline.
Almost all your fresh water presently comes from a large desalination plant. 
It is very inefficient.
Most of the water it produces is never used for anything to benefit anyone or anything.
Almost all the salt from this desal plant is just dumped into the sea.
The rest of it is dumped over the countryside salting up the land.
It's powered by a nuclear reactor.
It's been happening for millions of years and no one is doing anything about it. 
Seriously now,
I think desal plants are the only real answer to our water problem.
I also think that they are about the only worthwhile use for wind farm energy simply because the end product, i.e water, can be effectively and cheaply stored for use for a long time after the wind stops blowing.
An excellent example of this is the wind powered desal plant at Coral Bay in Nth West WA.
When the wind blows we get power to run the town. Whatever is left over runs the desal plant. The water is stored in big concrete storage tanks.
When the wind stops blowing the water is still available. There appears to be enough storage for about 3 months or more. Certainly enough to last until the wind blows again.
It's probably one of the very few uses where wind power makes sense.
The other power source that would make it an excellent option is nuclear fusion.
Unfortunately we don't have any due to short sighted decisions taken over the last 40 years.
Hopefully it will come one day.
In the meantime we could make do with nuclear fission reactors. Not perfect but far better than burning oil, coal, anything at all really.
My advice is, don't protest.
You are just choking off the best long term option for guaranteed water security.
only alternative is recycling water but-you guys over there already canned that idea. Even though it happens all over europe etc, people in Oz are too precious to consider it.
Headlines-"sewage to be pumped through your taps!" eeewww we dont want that. Lets protest everything. Desal plants do use a lot of energy-but many people cant get their head around the fact that pumping water long distances such as Ord to Perth takes MORE energy than to desalinate it.
PWEEDAS, CB is a great example, do you live up there?
.......but i;m sitting on the fence 
Nuclear fusion has been just 20 years away for the past 60 years.
I wouldn't count on it.
Maybe we should get FlySurfer to stop tinkering with that time machine and get him on to cold fusion
A desalination plant is the way to go.
People must understand that we cant keep on pulling water out the ground and dropping the water table.
This has been prevalent in my area lately.
What we are seeing because of the lower water table levels the natural bush slowly dying back. The bush land is not as green as it used to be.All the trees which have tapped into the watertabble are no longer getting water.
If the water table drops we effectively cut water to all the native bush land and it will eventually die.
The government is aware of this and that's why they have started to look at desalination.
If we look at the bigger picture on desal plants we would understand that they are one of the best options for water refinement.
Unfortunately if it is an expensive process the cost will be past up amongst the consumer.
Lowering of the water table is not a problem on the east coast. The main issue is its basically impossible to build new dams for metropolitan water supplies but the population keeps increasing. Coupled to that is the illogical way in which water is sold in Sydney at least. My water bill normally comes out at $125 a quarter. Thats $120 connection fee and $5 for the water.
We would actually try and save water if we had a lower connection fee and reasonable charge for water use. This pricing system is not promoting conservation of water.
