Editing Darwin, Northern Territory (section)

== Infrastructure ==
[[File:Royal Darwin Hospital.JPG|thumb|right|Royal Darwin Hospital]]

=== Health ===
The [[Government of the Northern Territory]] Department of Health and Families oversees one public hospital in the Darwin metropolitan region. The [[Royal Darwin Hospital]], in [[Tiwi, Northern Territory|Tiwi]], is the city's major teaching and referral hospital, and the largest in the Northern Territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nt.gov.au/health/hospital_svs/tesn/royaldarwinhospital/recruitment/rdh.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427222809/http://www.nt.gov.au/health/hospital_svs/tesn/royaldarwinhospital/recruitment/rdh.htm|archive-date=27 April 2009|title=RDH – Recruitment|work=Royal Darwin Hospital|publisher=Northern Territory Government}}</ref>

There is one major private hospital, Darwin Private Hospital, in [[Tiwi, Northern Territory|Tiwi]], adjacent to the Royal Darwin Hospital. Darwin Private Hospital is operated and owned by [[Healthscope|Healthscope Ltd]], a private hospital corporation.

A new hospital called Palmerston Regional Hospital was opened in August 2018 to help ease the pressure of patient numbers at the Royal Darwin Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://palmerstonregionalhospital.nt.gov.au/|title=Palmerston Regional Hospital|access-date=10 January 2019}}</ref>

=== Utilities ===
Water storage, supply and power for Darwin is managed by [[PowerWater]]. The corporation is also responsible for management of sewage and the major water catchments in the region. Water is mainly stored in the largest dam, The [[Darwin River Dam]], which holds up to 90% of Darwin's water supply. For many years, Darwin's principal water supply came from [[Manton Dam]].

Darwin and its suburbs, Palmerston and [[Katherine, Northern Territory|Katherine]], are powered by the [[Channel Island Power Station]], the Northern Territory's largest power plant, and the [[Weddell Power Station]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerwater.com.au/about_us/major_projects/weddell_power_station |title=Weddell Power Station |publisher=[[PowerWater]] |access-date=16 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622041133/http://www.powerwater.com.au/about_us/major_projects/weddell_power_station |archive-date=22 June 2010 }}</ref>

=== Telecommunications ===
Darwin once had Australia's only international connection to the outside world in the form of an overseas telegraph cable, connecting Darwin to Java. The southern section of the cable connected Darwin with Adelaide and was known as the [[Australian Overland Telegraph Line|overland telegraph line]]. In 2022, the Northern Territory Government announced that an international undersea cable system would land into Darwin, directly connecting it to Indonesia, Singapore, the United States and Timor Leste.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-01-15|title=Investment, jobs and data after Government secures cable deal - Inligo Networks|url=http://www.inligonetworks.com/?p=526|access-date=2022-01-22|language=en-US}}</ref> The new cable system, representing an investment of $700 million, is expected to create a new digital economy as it is coupled with recent announcements on Data Centre Investment into Darwin.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DCI Data Centres to build facility in Darwin|url=https://www.crn.com.au/news/dci-data-centres-to-build-facility-in-darwin-571464|access-date=2022-01-22|website=CRN Australia}}</ref> The plans for Darwin for Data Centres and International cables are outlined in the Northern Territory's Digital Strategy the Terabit Territory.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Government|first=Northern Territory|date=2020-05-18|title=Terabit Territory|url=https://cmc.nt.gov.au/advancing-industry/terabit-territory|access-date=2022-01-22|website=cmc.nt.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>