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The Binningup Desalination Plant is a 
desalination plant
Desalination is a process that takes away mineral components from saline water. More generally, desalination refers to the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance, as in soil desalination, which is an issue for agriculture. Saltw ...
near Binningup, Western Australia
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, about south of Perth
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. It supplies water to the state capital Perth, as well as the nearby regional city of Bunbury and is known as the Southern Seawater Desalination Project It was designed to initially deliver 50 gigalitre
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s of potable water per year but was expanded to deliver 100 gigalitre
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s of potable water per year, or 33% of Perth's requirements. The plant was officially opened in September 2011 at reduced output, and was completed and operating at full capacity in January 2013.
The site is in Taranto Road, Binningup, about 1,200 metres from the coast with most of the plant situated in a now disused limestone quarry. The project includes the laying of a , pipeline to deliver potable water to the South West Integrated System
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Etymology
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via a storage facility near Harvey. The Harvey facility has one 32 megalitre
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storage tank operational with another one under construction. There is allowance at the site for four 32 megalitre
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storage tanks.
See also
*List of desalination plants in Australia
As a result of the water supply crisis during the severe 1997–2009 drought State governments around Australia began building desalination plants that purify seawater using reverse osmosis technology. Many of these plants have included in th ...
*Reverse osmosis plant
A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. Reverse osmosis is a common process to purify or desalinate contaminated water by forcing water through a membrane. Water produced by reverse osm ...
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* *{{cite news, url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/24/2607675.htm?site=news, title=Final approval for SW desalination plant, work=ABC News, date=2009-06-24 Science and technology in Western Australia Desalination plants in Australia Water supply and sanitation in Western Australia Shire of Harvey