Sydney desalination plant churning out water even as dams remain full
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Sydneyâs $2.3 billion desalination plant is continuing to supply 50 million litres of a water a day just weeks after the cityâs dams spilled and storage levels remain near full.
New figures from WaterNSW also show Sydneyâs main dam at Warragamba collected 1212 gigalitres of inflows from the big rainfall event â or 1,212,000,000,000 litres. That is about 60 per cent of the damâs capacity.
At its peak, Warragamba Dam was spilling at the rate of 500,000,000,000 litres per day, WaterNSW says.
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