Legislative Council Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2) 53 2 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Adelaide Desalination Plant Adelaide Desalination Plant The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK Legislative Council Adelaide Desalination Plant The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:22): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Water and the River Murray a question on the subject of the Adelaide Desalination Plant study. Leave granted. The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK Legislative Council The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: On 22 March, the minister announced that an independent cost-benefit study to determine if water from the Adelaide Desalination Plant should be used to boost irrigation allocations during a time of low water availability would be undertaken, stating that the findings would be available in May 2016. This comes at a time when Riverland irrigators are facing a minimum opening water allocation of 36 per cent for the 2016-17 year. Can the minister advise where the report is and when we can actually expect to see it? That is basically it: where is it? The Hon. I.K. HUNTER Legislative Council Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:23): I thank the honourable member for her most important question. The report will be handed up soon.