Areas affected

Victoria’s desalination plant will be the largest in Australia, capable of supplying approximately one third of Melbourne’s annual water usage from a source that is entirely independent of rainfall. It will provide up to 150 billion litres of water a year to Melbourne, Geelong, and regional towns in South Gippsland and Western Port. The project includes an 84km underground pipeline to connect the plant to a transfer main at Berwick and then to Cardinia Reservoir.
Distribution of water supply