The Water Corporation is running a community survey asking whether a desalination plant, which could initially produce 25 billion litres of drinking water a year, should be built beside the Alkimos Wastewater Treatment Plant or in Kwinana.

On Perth Tonight Chris asked Brian Stone, a Civil Engineer Specialising in Water Treatment, whether we should be building a desalination plant at all or whether we’d be better sticking to recycling?

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