Our View: Government must resist Nimby pressure over desalination plants

Apart from the Nimby (not in my back yard) culture with regard to asphalt factories, migrant centres, kebab shops and so forth we are now seeing this being extended to desalination plants. No coastal community, it appears, wants to have a desalination plant anywhere close to or in view of their coast, because it is considered an eyesore that may reduce the value of real estate with a sea view and put off tourists from visiting.

When at the beginning of the year it was announced that the...