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Water Minister Phil Costa today congratulated residents of greater Sydney for continuing
to install rainwater tanks and make their homes more water efficient.
During a visit to the Illawarra today, Mr Costa and Minister for the Illawarra David
Campbell presented a certificate to the George Family of Fairy Meadow for being the
50,000th Sydney Water customer to take advantage of the Government’s rainwater tank
rebate.
Water Minister Phil Costa has today encouraged businesses across Sydney, the Illawarra
and Blue Mountains to apply for grants of up to $20,000 for projects that reduce water use.
Mr Costa said the NSW Government’s pilot Water Saver Grant program could assist small
and medium businesses by funding up to 50 percent of a new water efficient project
Water Minister Phil Costa is encouraging Sydneysiders to save money and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by becoming more water wise this year.
Mr Costa said making even small improvements to water efficiency around the home has a very
positive environmental impact.
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HC Info’s new three-day training course, “Performing High Quality Legionella Assessments,” will be held May 19-21, 2009 at the Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. The course is for engineers, water treatment specialists, and industrial hygienists that want to provide Legionella assessment services for hospitals, hotels, or industrial facilities; and for public environmental health officials that investigate Legionnaires’ disease.
Member for Auburn Barbara Perry today said the Rees Government’s $45 million redevelopment of the Potts Hill reservoir site will deliver a welcome boost for the construction industry in the area.
Ms Perry said Brookfield Multiplex would begin construction of a new warehouse and office facility for Sydney Water on the site’s eastern precinct early next year.
Water Minister Phil Costa today congratulated Sydney, Blue Mountains and Illawarra residents
for saving an average 13,000 litres of water in each household last financial year.
Water Minister Phil Costa today announced a significant construction milestone for the Capital Wind
Farm at Bungendore, with assembly complete on the first of 67 wind turbines.
Mr Costa said the wind farm is being built to supply enough renewable energy to run Sydney’s
desalination plant, which comes on line in the summer of 2009-10.
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The last of the eleven Blue Mountains sewage treatment plants handed over to Sydney Water from Blue Mountains City Council in 1980 has been closed, ending an era of treated effluent being discharged into local rivers and creeks
Construction is now underway on a major recycled water plant at St Marys that will produce up to 50 million litres of high-quality recycled water each day by 2010
People in Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains can now use a trigger nozzle to water-in new plants for 28 days from the date of purchase
Downstream plumbing does not attract much interest until something goes wrong. Now with the emphasis on water
conservation there are concerns that lower building drainage
flows will mean problems in future
n the Western world there is scant appreciation of how fortunate we are to have public infrastructure, general good health and pleasant living conditions
Heated wastewater can be harnessed to pre-heat the inlet to
hot water systems, offering considerable savings and the downsizing of hot water unit capacity
Beijing’s fascinating hutong neighborhoods may be historic, but the plumbing is being thoroughly modernized as the Chinese city races towards the Olympics
Sydney Water will start constructing a new sewage pumping station at Neutral Bay next month to reduce sewage overflows into Sydney Harbour caused by wet weather. The total cost of the work is around $7 million
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NSW Water Minister Nathan Rees today announced during an inspection of the Sydney Desalination Plant that it was on budget and on track, with 30 per cent of construction now complete
Because there is a clear link between water use and energy
consumption, saving water can also save energy. The search
is underway to find more efficient ways of delivering water
to limit energy and water loss
