Displaying items by tag: Recycled Water
Wider use of water recycling is one measure available as a response to the pressures of climate change and population growth, and a spectrum of small scale water recycling plants is now available for study. This project comprises a review of current water quality monitoring technology and its application in a sample of nine small scale water recycling plants.
The Alternative Water Atlas (a spatial planning tool) was developed as part of the Water Supply and Demand Strategy for Melbourne. This project provided insight into the potential opportunity for alternative water sources across Melbourne now and in the future, and the costs and benefits that are attached to these opportunities.
The EME group is committed to designing residential, commercial, retail and school buildings that integrate water management, recycling and conservation, significantly reducing water usage and saving money.
The challenge is to encourage developers to instinctively incorporate water saving devices in residential design and to convince them of the positive benefits for both developer and resident.
Albert Park Lake and surrounding parkland have, to date, used drinking water for irrigation and until 3 years ago, lake replenishment.
This project explored community attitudes to finding alternative sources – recycled water (including sewer mining), treated stormwater or seawater - for times when water is scarce and because views on drinking water usage are changing.
Because of the large volumes of visitors, Flemington Racecourse management believed it would be economically feasible to demonstrate sewer mining as a form of water recycling using the Multiple Water Reuse (MWR) wastewater treatment technology patented by Waste Technologies of Australia (WTA).
The Smart Water Fund provided $270,000 towards the project for development and demonstration of the sewer mining technology.
The Club is using recycled water supplied from their local water authority to support a durable yet impact-resistant surface.
It has also utilised a new and highly innovative sub-surface irrigation system.
Operating 24-hours a day, the Western, Williamstown and Sunshine Hospitals have a combined water usage of 580 kilolitres a day in their bathrooms, laundry, kitchen, cleaning and sterilisation areas.
The Facilities Management Department, which services all three hospitals, took up the challenge to reduce the amount of water used by Western Health without compromising the quality of care provided.
This project will investigate a range of innovative treatments to remove colour from effluent generating improved recycled water products. Treatments to be investigated include advanced oxidation processes, ozone, an ion exchange resin and biological activated carbon.
Communications and consulting company Arris, which specialises in amenity and production agriculture and environmental risk management, set out to assess the barriers to adoption of recycled water use in the industry and determine its specific needs regarding water reuse and recycled water irrigation schemes.
Once the barriers were determined, Arris aimed to improve the development and adoption of recycled water use by creating a user handbook, training programs and workshops to overcome these barriers.