Rio Tinto invests $600m in desalination plant
The project will deliver drinking quality water to sustain its West Pilbara iron ore operations and local townships.
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The project will deliver drinking quality water to sustain its West Pilbara iron ore operations and local townships.
Major Rio Tinto on Friday announced plans to invest $395-million in a seawater desalination plant in the Pilbara to support future water supply for the company’s coastal operations and communities in the region. The proposed Dampier Seawater Desalination Plant, which remains subject to Commonwealth and state government approvals, will be located within Rio’s existing iron-ore port operations at Parker Point. It will have an initial nominal capacity of four gigalitres a year, with the potential for this to increase to eight gigalitres in the future.
PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto plans to invest $395 million1 in a seawater desalination plant in the Pilbara, Western Australia, to support future water supply for the company’s coastal
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