Health Services Utilisation and Urban Dual Reticulation Systems

Funded by: CRC for Water Quality and Treatment

This study will examine health outcomes of residents of an area supplied by a dual water reticulation system, and compare them to an otherwise similar area with a conventional reticulation system. The study will be carried out in the Rouse Hill area of Sydney, which is the largest existing dual reticulation system in Australia with about 15,000 households occupied as of late 2004.

This project will provide additional assurance of the safety of supplying recycled water for non-potable purposes. Output from this study is important given the proposed future scale of implementation of dual reticulation system in Australia whereby larger numbers of people hitherto unexposed, will be exposed to recycled water in the domestic and urban context.