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Saving water by recycling
By recycling your wastewater we save our drinking water for drinking
Sydney has some of Australia's largest water recycling projects for homes, industry and the environment.
Residential water
recycling, Rouse Hill
Homes - One of Australia's largest residential recycling schemes at Rouse Hill provides recycled water to about 17,000 homes. This will more than double to around 36,000 homes.
Hot strip mill,
BlueScope Steel
Industry - Sydney Water's largest industrial recycling project at Port Kembla provides about 20 million litres of recycled water a day to BlueScope Steel, saving about 17 per cent of the Illawarra's daily water use.
Hawkesbury-Nepean
River, at Penrith
Environment - 18 billion litres of drinking water is released each year from Warragamba Dam into the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. This will soon be replaced with highly treated recycled water through the Replacement Flows Project.
Recycling is a key element of the NSW Government's Metropolitan Water Plan, which sets out how the Government will secure Sydney's water supply.
Currently greater Sydney recycles around 22 billion litres of wastewater a year.
By 2015, we'll be recycling 70 billion litres of wastewater a year. That's about 12% of greater Sydney's water supply.
