Water pressure: Rural Aid donates desalinator to Tenterfield to help ease water crisis on town

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Updated July 30 2019 - 4:30pm, first published 4:00pm
Rural Aid's Charles Alder hands over the aid organisation's first desalination plant to Mayor Peter Petty. Behind them are (from left) John McKinnie from Salt Free Desalination, driver Blair Johnston of Hancock Farming Enterprises, and council staff, Tamai Davidson, Gillian Marchant and Melissa Blum.
Rural Aid's Charles Alder hands over the aid organisation's first desalination plant to Mayor Peter Petty. Behind them are (from left) John McKinnie from Salt Free Desalination, driver Blair Johnston of Hancock Farming Enterprises, and council staff, Tamai Davidson, Gillian Marchant and Melissa Blum.

A NEW desalination plant in Tenterfield is set to generate 70,000 litres of safe drinking water to help residents in the drought-ravaged town.

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Donna Ward

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