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Recycling

Dams DesalinationWater EfficiencyLogo of Metropolitan Water Plan. Click here to open the NSW Government's Water For Life website in a new browser window.

Currently greater Sydney recycles about 27 billion litres of wastewater a year. By 2015, we'll be recycling 70 billion litres of wastewater a year - that's up to 12% of Sydney's water needs.


Residential water recycling, Rouse Hill
Homes

Australia's largest residential recycling scheme at Rouse Hill provides recycled water to more than 18,000 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 and the Port Kembla Coal Terminal, 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.


Image of golf course irrigation using recycled water.
Irrigation and
agriculture

Sydney Water supplies about 3.8 billion litres of recycled water a year for irrigating farms, golf courses, sportsgrounds, parks and a racecourse.