Up the creek: the $85 million plan to desalinate water for drought relief – Australia The deal to crank up Adelaide’s desalination plant to make more water available to farmers in the drought-stricken Murray-Darling Basin makes no sense. It involves the federal government paying the South Australian government up to A$100 million to produce more water for Adelaide using the little-used desalination plant. The plant was commissioned in 2007 at the height of the millennium drought. It can produce up to 100 gigalitres of water a year – enough to fill 40,000 olympic sized swimming pools. […] Up the creek: the $85 million plan to desalinate water for drought relief – AustraliaHIWI042019-11-14T04:56:15+01:00