How Can Water Recycling Benefit Us?

Water recycling provides enormous environmental benefits. It also provides an additional source of water for various
purposes. This a list of some benefits that water recycling can present.
Water recycling decreases the extraction of water form sources that may be dwindling and may stop being

viable as habitats for valuable and endangered wildlife.

Recycling wastewater can decrease the discharge of effluents that may damage and pollute the ecosystems

of the sensitive bodies of water.

Recycled water can be used to create new wetlands or to enhance and improve the quality of existing ones.

Water recycling can reduce and prevent pollution by leaving damaging pollutants at the treatment plant.

Cost
Using recycled water can mean increased costs for infrastructure such as additional treatment facilities and extra pipes to transport it. According to the
Australian Academy of Science, the Australian city of Toowoomba planned to spend $68 million on a new wastewater treatment plant as part of its plan to use
recycled water to supplement its drinking water supply. Another Australian city, Goulburn, planned to spend $32 million on a similar facility for the same
purpose.

Public Perception
Using recycled water, especially as drinking water, requires overcoming public opinion, which can be difficult. For instance, Wollongong University surveyed
1,000 Australians in 2007 about recycled water. The results, which were reported in the Australian newspaper the Age, showed that 30 percent found the
concept disgusting and 70 percent equated recycled water with "purified sewage." The plan to use recycled water for drinking in Toowoomba, Australia,
described in Section 1, was actually voted down by residents.

1. Protects Environment:
2.

Reduces Energy Consumption:

3.

Reduces Pollution:

4. Reduces Global Warming:

5. Judicious and Sustainable use of Resources:
6. Conserves Natural Resources:
7. Reduces Amount of Waste to Landfills
8. Create Green Jobs:
9.

Water (chemical formula: H2O) is a transparent fluid which forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain, and is the
major constituent of the fluids of organisms. As a chemical compound, a water molecule contains one oxygen and
two hydrogen atoms that are connected bycovalent bonds. Water is a liquid at standard ambient temperature and
pressure, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice; andgaseous state, steam (water vapor). It also exists
as snow, fog, dew and cloud.

10. Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface.

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It is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth, 96.5% of the planet's water is

found in seas and oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, a small
fraction in other large water bodies, and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of ice and liquid water suspended in
air), and precipitation.[2][3] Only 2.5% of the Earth's water is freshwater, and 98.8% of that water is in ice (excepting ice in

clouds) and groundwater. Less than 0.3% of all freshwater is in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere, and an even smaller
amount of the Earth's freshwater (0.003%) is contained within biological bodies and manufactured products. [2]