national water summit requried , page-26

Atleast someone is doing something!

Sydney Water will soon have the biggest water recycling scheme in Australia, for industrial use by BlueScope Steel in Port Kembla.


Twenty million litres of high quality recycled water per day will be delivered to BlueScope Steel from a new recycled water plant at Sydney Water's Wollongong Sewage Treatment Plant.


This will replace 7.3 billion litres of drinking water per year currently drawn from the local Avon Dam, a 57 per cent reduction of drinking water consumption by Sydney Water's largest customer.


The water recycling plant at Wollongong uses micro-filtration and reverse osmosis membrane processes to produce high quality recycled water suitable for a range of industrial purposes such as cooling systems.


This project alone will reduce the use of drinking water across the total Illawarra region by 17 per cent. There is potential to expand to other local industries in the future.


BlueScope Steel recycling is part of the Illawarra Wastewater Strategy.

http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SavingWater/RecyclingandReuse/RecyclingAndReuseInAction/RecyclingForIndustry.cfm