Australians in regional and remote areas could have better access to recycled water thanks to Griffith University research.
Researchers investigated the common, but little-known, phenomenon of waste ponds – water systems that treat liquid waste by allowing natural processes to stabilise the organic matter inside them.
Used since the early 1900s due to their low cost and minimal technical requirements, waste ponds are a simple process for recycling waste water so it can be reused in industries like agriculture.
Griffith researchers partnered with four other universities and nine industry partners for the ‘pond project’, aiming to discover how Australia’s more than 1,330 waste ponds could work most efficiently.
Co-researcher Professor Hong Zhang, from the School of Engineering and Built Environment, said more than 80 per cent of local governments in Australia use pond treatment in some form, with the recycled water potentially serving as many as seven million Australians.
“Waste ponds will continue to play an
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