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Oct 17, 2018
Fire Protection Recycled Water Pipeline for Mornington Peninsula
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council today said the 350 million litres a day of Class A recycled water, treated at the Eastern Treatment...
Jul 23, 2018
Warning Victorians will pay for failure to recycle more stormwater
Victorians are being warned that water costs will rise in future due to a failure to use more rainwater and stormwater to ease the...
Jun 27, 2018
Perth dodged a water crisis like Cape Town's Day Zero — but the city's still not out of the
Imagine having to wait in a queue to collect a 25-litre daily ration of water because your city's taps have run dry. That is a doomsday...
Jun 5, 2018
Where water is scarce, communities turn to reusing wastewater
When California’s Orange County Water District began distributing drinking water derived from sewage in the mid-1970s, it acted out of...
Apr 30, 2018
CSIRO making Sydney harbour water drinkable
Sydney’s often-polluted harbour has played a starring role in the development of a new CSIRO water-filter coating that could save lives...
Feb 7, 2018
How to prevent cities from drying up
The South African city of Cape Town, home to more than four million people, is set to run out of water in a matter of weeks. It is a...
Nov 5, 2017
University reuses sewage as biogas using Hyacinths
A group of biotechnologists from Vignan University have developed a model for conversion of domestic sewage water into biogas and...
Sep 18, 2017
Australia's first Integrated Water Management to be implemented in Victoria
The Victorian Government will put communities at the centre of storm and recycled water management through new forums across Victoria as...
Aug 1, 2017
Recycling air conditioning condensation
Amid the acute water shortage in the city, Chennai Metro Rail is pitching in to do its bit. It has adopted a mechanism that will help...
Jun 18, 2017
Perth's recycled water groundwater replenishment doubled
Perth is pumping recycled water into the underground aquifers that provide its drinking water supply as part of a strategy to...
Jan 2, 2017
Minnesota bans triclosan due to its risk to human health
Officials in Minnesota passed a controversial law that requires manufacturers to phase out their current inventory of germ-fighting...
Nov 21, 2016
Supermarkets to remove triclosan from soaps
Supermarket giants Woolworths and ALDI will remove the "harmful" chemical triclosan from their home brand antibacterial soaps sold in...
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