Week 8.3 - Recycled water: Green Square

With over 20 billion litres of Sydney's stormwater flowing out to sea every year, development within the Green Square precinct is undertaking a conscious effort to implement water saving initiatives. Apartment dwellers are notoriously high consumers of drinking water, with one third of what they use either flushed down the toilet or used in the laundry. In response, stormwater harvesting will see that recycled storm water, purified through processes such as ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis, is used for bathroom and laundry purposes. In facilitating a recycled water network, savings are real, with a parallel plumbing system able to provide up to 900 kilolitres (half an Olympic-sized swimming pool) of recycled water every day. As a consequence, economic costs associated with the implementation of such systems are able to be justified through reduced water bills and the knowledge that a conscious effort is being made to live sustainably.

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