Australia’s urban water resourcing challenge
- From: Vol 11, Issue 8 (August 2010)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: Australia
- Related Companies: Water Services Association of Australia
A new report predicts that water demand in Australia’s major cities will rise by 76% to 7.3 million m3/d between now and 2056. GWI’s Australia Editor Max Borchardt reports on the challenges facing today’s utility managers.
A report published in July by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) predicts that population growth will increase water demand in Australia’s major urban centres by more than 3.1 million m3/d between now and 2056.
The document uses population growth projections published in 2008, and takes as the most plausible scenario the premise that the total ...
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