Recycling water has become a big part of life in throughout the world, particularly in Australia. Australia is the driest continent on the Earth that is being inhabited by humans (Apostolids, 2011). The population keeps growing in numbers but the rainfall does not change and sometimes brings droughts to the land (Apostolids, 2011). The continent has an average runoff consisting of fifty millimeters per year (Apostolids, 2011). There is not much rainfall there which means that recycling water will help sustain the lifestyle of the continent for years to come. Australia has a population around nineteen million people with only ten percent of them living in the Northern tropical area (Kracman, 2001). Australia has faced severe droughts that …show more content…
The Department of Health of Western Australia (DOWHA) has many different rules for recycled water schemes (Shishkina, 2012). The first wastewater scheme was approved in 1958 (Shiskina, 2012). Since then, DOHWA has approved over 150 schemes (Shiskina, 2012). The Virginia Pipeline is one of the big schemes that got approved. This pipeline is helping to provide water to other areas (Kracman, 2001). It distributes water to around 250 vegetable farms in a 200 square kilometer area (Kracman, 2001). Virginia is the main area for the vegetable growing companies (Kracman, 2001). Other schemes include storm water harvesting and rooftop water tanks. These schemes provide water that is non-potable but can be used within the household or throughout the commercial industry (Muston, 2012). Some of these uses include watering golf courses or parks and tree farms (Muston, 2012). In fact, the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project is able to recycle 75 percent of wastewater (Apostolidis, 2011). This is the largest water recycling project in the world (Apostolidis, 2011). The result of this recycled water is a one hundred percent water usage (Apostolidis, 2011). This project uses seven barrier stages to allow the water to be returned to a household for potable uses (Apostolidis,