Stewart Smith provides an overview of desalination plants and technology from around the world, including case studies, in the context of current NSW government policy. He also compares and contrasts two approaches to water recycling.

The Carr government has announced that it will build a desalination plant to help resolve the water supply shortage, unless there is enough rain in the next few months to raise storage levels to a 'safe' level. Desalination is an energy intensive process. Because electricity in eastern Australia is mostly generated by coal-fired power stations...

'City of cities' was a 25-year plan for Sydney, published by the NSW Government in 2005.

In the final report of this project, Nancy Marshall, Ian Burnley, Peter Murphy and Graeme Hugo examine the motivations of, and tradeoffs made by, low-income welfare recipients who choose to relocate from rural and regional areas to metropolitan cities.

This is the final report of the Hawkesbury Nepean River Management Forum. It recommends balancing the management of the greater Sydney water supply region's available water resources to ensure the health of the rivers, whilst continuing to provide a long-term effective water supply. The solutions are integrated and rely on the implementation of all the...