Can households use recycled water?
There are a number of residential developments planned for Melbourne, which will have third pipe facilities enabling the use of recycled water for non-drinking applications such as toilet flushing and watering gardens. 4. Why is recycled water being used? Water is a precious resource, yet less than 10% of Australia’s urban and industrial water is recycled. Melburnians use about 485,000 million litres of potable (drinking) water each year. Much of this is for uses that do not require the standard of drinking water, and could be substituted with recycled water. Water recycling is a socially, environmentally and economically viable solution to help preserve our drinking water supplies. 5. What are the benefits of using recycled water? Recycled water has many benefits. It reduces the demand on fresh water and makes use of a precious resource that currently goes to waste. Water recycling schemes protect the environment by reducing the discharge of treated effluent to bays and the ocean. 6.
