Drinking Recycled Water? Study Establishes Methods to Assess Recycled Aquifer Water

By Emily Ramirez

Earlier this year, around the south of Australia, The Parafield Aquifier Storage, Transfer, and Recovery research project collected a large amount of storm water from an metropolitan area and brought it to an aquifer and received it out of a well. The water did not meet the qualifications needed to be distributed to the public, due to small amounts of fecal bacteria, high concentration on iron, and various other contaminants. To attempt to purify the water, the water underwent treatment and in result, they had incredibly lower levels of hazard. This study resulted in the assumption that in the future, it might be possible to recycle water from an aquifer and avoid a inevitable water shortage with the growing population. Because water is such an important, and non-renewable source, the human race must be working to find manners of obtaining maximum amount of water we can get.

To come to these conclusions, these scientist used discovery science, by doing different experiments with different samples of water, and testing them, they came to their, very important results.

American Society of Agronomy. "Drinking recycled water? Study establishes methods to assess recycled aquifer water." ScienceDaily, 6 Jan. 2011. Web. 11 Nov. 2011.