Sydney's desalination plant has been flicked on after much anticipation. Its activation tells us Sydney's dam levels have dipped below 60 per cent and we need a backup source of drinking water.

The Sydney Desalination Plant will be switched off this weekend, but will still cost taxpayers $16 million a month to keep in mothballs.(Damien Larkins, file photo: ABC News) ...

The $2.3 billion Sydney Desalination Plant has been mothballed since July 2012. The trigger for reactivating the project will be reached by Sunday, once the city's water reservoirs dip below the ...

Sydney families will be slugged an extra $45 on their water bills after the long mothballed desalination plant is switched on within weeks. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

With Sydney having already come close to running out of water during times of extreme drought, the government will investigate the desalination plant option, because it needs to ensure supplies ...

Sydney families will be slugged an extra $45 on their water bills after the long mothballed desalination plant is switched on within weeks. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Technologically advanced implementations of this idea are widely used at industrial facilities such as the Sydney Desalination Plant in Australia. Reverse osmosis today is the go-to technology ...

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is seeking a buyer for its 60 per cent stake in the Sydney Desalination Plant, a core part of the city’s water infrastructure privatised by the O’Farrell ...

The company has previously supported major projects such as the Sydney Desalination Plant, upgrades at the Rouse Hill water recycling plant and the Western Sydney Regional Master Plan.

Sydney families will be slugged an extra $45 on their water bills after the long mothballed desalination plant is switched on within weeks. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

The capacity of the Kurnell desalination plant may need to be doubled as the state government moves to ensure there is enough drinking water for the tens of thousands of new homes to be built in ...