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Saving water by recycling
By recycling your wastewater we save our drinking water for drinking
Recycling will provide 12% of greater Sydney's water supply.
Currently greater Sydney recycles around 25 billion litres of wastewater a year. By 2015, we'll be recycling 70 billion litres of wastewater a year.
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% of the Illawarra's daily water use.
Hawkesbury-Nepean
River, at Penrith
Environment
A new recycled water plant at St Marys will produce up to 18 billion litres a year of highly treated recycled water to help maintain the flow of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, 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.
