The standards for recycling stormwater are higher for drinking water than for non-potable reuse such as agricultural or urban irrigation…
Compliance with the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling ensures that recycled wastewater does not present a health risk due to infectious pathogens or disease-causing chemicals…
In an earlier project stormwater was collected from an urban environment, treated through electrolysis, injected into and retrieved from an acquifer, and reused for greywater irrigation…
Cryptosporidium is a waterborne microscopic parasite with different forms at various stages of its lifecycle…
In 2006, strict restrictions on using tap water for gardening or car-washing were imposed in Melbourne but relaxed in 2010-2011 as rainfall replenished depleted reservoirs…
Water supply is usually continuous, and interruptions to supply are expensive and inconvenient…
Treated wastewater may still contain some harmful, infectious pathogens…
Smaller and regional Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) have the capacity to recycle wastewater for agricultural use, but the cost of obtaining regulatory approval or ‘accreditation’ is prohibitive…
Some wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) use membrane bioreactors (MBR)…
Sewage is delivered to wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) where benign microbial organisms within ‘activated sludge’ vessels contribute to the removal of harmful pathogens from the sewage…