Residents, businesses, and other key stakeholders will have an extra five weeks to provide feedback on the NSW Government’s draft Recycled Water Roadmap, which aims to build more sustainable and resilient water supplies in the future.
The draft Roadmap outlines a vision for expanding water reuse throughout the state where it is safe, beneficial, and cost-effective, ensuring a robust policy and regulatory framework for projects in the coming decades.
“It’s great to see a huge amount of interest in the draft Recycled Water Roadmap. We know it’s a complex subject, and this is a busy time of the year with Christmas on the horizon, which is why we want to give people as much time as possible to provide their input,” NSW DCCEEW Executive Director Water Operations and Resilience Ashraf El-Sherbini said.
The public exhibition period has been running for the past five weeks after opening on 28 October, gathering views from a wide range of stakeholders, including local water utilities, industry, Aboriginal communities and environmental groups.
“Water utilities across NSW are currently engaging with customers at the grassroots level to better understand their preferences on the use of recycled water, including the potential to add purified recycled water to future drinking water supplies,” El-Sherbini said.
The NSW Government has heard the community loud and clear that more time is needed for them to have their say on this important topic, which is why we have extended the public exhibition deadline until 10 January 2025.
“Extending the public exhibition period until 10 January will give us an even better picture of the landscape and the best ways to move forward with this plan,” El-Sherbini said.
These opinions and views will be compiled into a What We Heard report, which will be published next year before we finalise the Recycled Water Roadmap in 2025.
To have your say, visit: Recycled water roadmap
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