How regulators could kill off Australia's water recycling industry
by Michael Slezak from Environment | The Guardian on (#32DK1)
A world-leading system in Sydney's Central Park precinct helps residents reuse up to 97% of their water. But a pricing change threatens future schemes
In the basement of a Sydney housing development is the world's largest water recycling plant in a residential building.
Normal apartments put more than 90% of the water they consume back into the sewer. But thanks to the recycling plant, units in Central Park, built on the site of the old Carlton brewery close to the CBD, return just 3%.
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