Water supply sustainability demands that communities look toward non-traditional water sources for potable and household water needs…
Potable water reuse is increasingly recognised as an important water management strategy for future Australian and international cities…
New satellites and drones have the capacity to provide higher resolution images, of larger areas, more often than ever before, but how can water managers and scientists access or use this data, and what will they need to incorporate remotely sensed information into analysis, planning and other decision-making processes…
Every day, Australians produce ~5 billion litres of wastewater, which contains a cocktail of chemicals…
Significance of the environment as a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance from agricultural origin
Microscopic organisms such as fungi, bacteria and viruses can cause disease and infection, but most can be treated with pharmaceutical drugs…
Wastewater must be treated to remove four classes of pollutants to levels that regulators consider safe for discharge to the environment: these are nutrients, micropollutants, total suspended solids and pathogens..
As an alternative water resource, stormwater has a great potential to be reused for various purposes, including for the augmentation of drinking water supplies, but the reason stormwater run-off has not been widely used is because it contains unknown and variable amounts of chemical contaminants and microscopic organisms, some of which can cause illness and disease…
People excrete antibiotics and many types of bacteria, and this mixture can become concentrated in wastewater treatment plants…
The Australian water industry is unsure of the original basis of the maximum 10% supernatant return rule, in the context of water treatment…
Predicting the effects of climate change is a complicated business…