Adelaide Treatment Plant to Provide Sustainable Water for Irrigation

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Adelaide Treatment Plant to Provide Sustainable Water for Irrigation

Adelaide’s Bolivar Wastewater Treatment Plant, one of South Australia’s most significant recyclers of wastewater, will supply a massive irrigation scheme after the Australian Federal Government confirmed funding for the project.

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Bolivar Sewage Plant, Source: SA Water

Costing AU$156mn and taking 18 months to build once officially signed off, the sustainable water development will create upwards of 3,700 jobs and add $500mn to South Australia’s economy every year. 

Initial extra output from Bolivar is predicted to be 12bn litres of water a year, or 12 gigalitres.

This represents a 60% increase in output from the site at a time when concerns have been raised about Australia’s ability to handle predicted hikes in urban populations. The extra capacity will significantly boost the area’s ability to farm commercial crops in a sustainable manner.  

Once at full capacity the site, which draws water from the Gawler River, will produce 20bn extra litres of recycled water a year.

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  1. very sad to hear your government screwed it up again.  Like the story goes. " if you have a big job to do,  do not get a bigger ox, get 2 or more Oxen".  If population grows in already overpopulated cities then  create communities in the central part of AU. you have roads, trains, supply trucks. Lots of spring water and uncollected rainwater.  Truck the garbage out of your overpopulated cities,(or rail), give free to farmers along highway. They collect rainwater and have long term storage. Make compost, add to soil, grow crops or forest.  Rainfall will increase the more compost is in the soil. Give land away free to farmers that lost their farms during the drought.  They build and business grows, housing, markets, GDP increases, no water, waste water, electrical infrastructure required. Bioremediation process takes care of all of this.