WATER: "Drier 'new reality' to cost nation $30 billion to hydrate"

The Age
4 September 2008

AUSTRALIA will spend at least $30 billion finding new sources of water over the next decade, as the nation's biggest water authorities declared yesterday there was no drought, but rather a drier "new reality".

The declaration in the Water Services Association of Australia's annual performance report comes as experts predict Melbourne will need multiple desalination plants to satisfy demand by 2050...

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