Opinion: Desalination plants are a critical part of our future
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We've filled that gap for Sydney's offshore plant. In response to public concern, the original owner of the SDP plant – Sydney Water – commissioned a substantial, independent and world-class ecological impact assessment. I was lucky enough to lead a major aspect of this study and in the past year my collaborators and I have published two of the world's first rigorous impact studies of desalination plant effluent on fish and marine invertebrates.
many invertebrates and fish populations actually increased while the plant was pumping out hypersaline effluent.
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