❓ The Premier boasts about WA's leadership in water security through desalination, highlighting the Kwinana plant and criticising the opposition's stance. He contrasts this with damming proposals.
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FUTURE WATER SUPPLIES
Will the Premier advise the house of the latest example of Western Australia leading the nation in securing our future water supplies? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
Will the Premier advise the house of the latest example of Western Australia leading the nation in securing our future water supplies? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for the question. It has been reported in the press today that yesterday the Victorian government announced that it will develop a very large desalination project to help combat the water issues that challenge the very future of the state and its industry and residential developments. Victoria and some of the other states are doing that because they have seen what we have done in Western Australia. That was done - I cannot understand why - in the face of opposition from members opposite. It was done also in the face of criticism, scepticism, cynicism and “oppositionism” from members opposite. Western Australia has now got the world’s best example of a desalination project for the production of fresh water for domestic consumption using renewable energy as a source to power the plant. An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. It has been reported in the press today that yesterday the Victorian government announced that it will develop a very large desalination project to help combat the water issues that challenge the very future of the state and its industry and residential developments. Victoria and some of the other states are doing that because they have seen what we have done in Western Australia. That was done - I cannot understand why - in the face of opposition from members opposite. It was done also in the face of criticism, scepticism, cynicism and “oppositionism” from members opposite. Western Australia has now got the world’s best example of a desalination project for the production of fresh water for domestic consumption using renewable energy as a source to power the plant. An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
I thank the member for the question. It has been reported in the press today that yesterday the Victorian government announced that it will develop a very large desalination project to help combat the water issues that challenge the very future of the state and its industry and residential developments. Victoria and some of the other states are doing that because they have seen what we have done in Western Australia. That was done - I cannot understand why - in the face of opposition from members opposite. It was done also in the face of criticism, scepticism, cynicism and “oppositionism” from members opposite. Western Australia has now got the world’s best example of a desalination project for the production of fresh water for domestic consumption using renewable energy as a source to power the plant. An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. It has been reported in the press today that yesterday the Victorian government announced that it will develop a very large desalination project to help combat the water issues that challenge the very future of the state and its industry and residential developments. Victoria and some of the other states are doing that because they have seen what we have done in Western Australia. That was done - I cannot understand why - in the face of opposition from members opposite. It was done also in the face of criticism, scepticism, cynicism and “oppositionism” from members opposite. Western Australia has now got the world’s best example of a desalination project for the production of fresh water for domestic consumption using renewable energy as a source to power the plant. An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
I thank the member for the question. It has been reported in the press today that yesterday the Victorian government announced that it will develop a very large desalination project to help combat the water issues that challenge the very future of the state and its industry and residential developments. Victoria and some of the other states are doing that because they have seen what we have done in Western Australia. That was done - I cannot understand why - in the face of opposition from members opposite. It was done also in the face of criticism, scepticism, cynicism and “oppositionism” from members opposite. Western Australia has now got the world’s best example of a desalination project for the production of fresh water for domestic consumption using renewable energy as a source to power the plant. An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
An opposition member interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I like that. Every time we say that, members opposite laugh because they are intellectually incapable of making the leap from believing that a wind farm can generate power to a plant that is not right next door to a wind farm. They believe that a wind farm cannot possibly be powering the desalination plant if it is not located next door to the plant and the wires do not run directly across the fence to the desalination plant. It is somewhere else. Pity help us. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure that the member for Victoria Park asked the question and not everyone else who wishes to interject. I would like to hear the answer and I am sure that the member for Victoria Park would like to hear it as well. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I noticed that the Victorian Premier and the other people at the announcement were drinking bottled desalinated water from no other location than our very own Kwinana desalination project. There it is. We are showing Australia how to do it. I congratulate the Victorian government and Premier Steve Bracks for making that decision. It is a very big project. I think it is a 150-gigalitre project and will require a lot of other associated work. It will cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. It is a massive project. The Victorian government is able to go ahead and do it with confidence because it has seen our own desalination plant in Western Australia. It works and provides a rainfall-free source of fresh water for the state. I look forward to the second desalination plant being developed in Western Australia. We went about this properly. We did the analysis, had the discussions and made a decision on the first desalination project, which I thought was a very brave decision to be made by the former Premier and the government. The former Premier led the decision making. Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr P.D. Omodei : $15.8 million on the Yarragadee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Thus spake a former water minister. What is the latest river he wants us to dam? He wants the Fitzroy River, the Brunswick River and the Denmark River to be dammed. He wants virtually every river south of Perth to be dammed. Indeed they would be damned, and so would everyone else in the south west! If the Leader of the Opposition had his way, we would all be damned! We would be damned alright. Get with the times. We have moved way ahead of that. We have entered into a brave new world. We are desalinating the biggest water supply and the biggest dam - the Indian Ocean - and the rest of Australia is following suit.
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