| Desalination: now even its peak body admits major environmental effects |
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Proponents of desalination have long been chanting the mantra that its environmental impacts are minimal, despite increasing evidence to the contrary. At last this fallacy has now been exposed for the lie that it is, with the recent release (October 5, 2009) of a statement from the International Desalination Association that it is forming a task force to look into strategies to mitigate the effects of this environmentally-noxious process, now devastating the Arabian Gulf.
Fair Water Use has contacted the South Australian Premier [view letter here] asking for his response, as precisely the same problem of low sea-water flushing exists in the region of his much vaunted desalination plant at Port Stanvac and that proposed by BHP-Billiton in Spencer Gulf.
Satellite image of Arabian Gulf with narrow entrance on upper right (Image courtesy NASA) |
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organised and supported by ordinary Australians who share concerns about Australia's water future
- especially that of the Murray-Darling Basin