Efforts to mitigate the country’s water shortage are intensely focussed on the rapid acquisition of desalination plants, viewed as the most effective way to secure long term adequacy.
However, questions abound about how quickly the plants can be built given their cost, as well as more fundamental questions as to how water procured will be allocated, accounted for and managed.
Water Development Department (WDD) director George Kazantzis said this week
