sydney's desal plant and julia gillard, page-27

** Melbourne Water estimates the cost of production of desal water to be $3000 a megalitre.

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Saw this on TV some years ago!

** Coca-Cola Amatil pays the Hepburn Shire $2.05 per million-litres (mega) of water...

The shire of Hepburn ...., home to Mt Franklin (Lalgambook), is a water-generating region northwest of Melbourne. The cool water from the highlands supplies many lower catchments, including Melbourne's. Coca-Cola Amatil pays the Hepburn Shire $2.05 per million-litres (mega) of water, which equates to about $95 per year for nearly 50 million litres ? or about 5 cents per truck load.


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