Securing a safer and more sustainable supply of water

We are trying to get smart in the use and re-use of water. In Australia, waste-water is already treated and recycled to be used for non-drinking purposes. And lately waste-water samples are being used to detect COVID-19 fragments.

Oil waste-water is generated in factories and workshops. Can it be processed for re-use? Source: Source: Where Bladerunners go to rest by lanier67/Creative Commons

Aditya Kusnoadi works as a supervisor in the treatment of waste water.  He explains to Sri Dean the process of waste-water treatment and how the separation of waste-water types is just as crucial as separating other types of rubbish that will be recycled.

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The fat and scraps found in waste-water used in commercial kitchens is a unique waster-water type known as grease-trap waste. Source: Image by Madame Fromage1/Creative Commons.