Brisbane Airport leads the way with water savings ...

Excerpt from the Courier Mail:

Airport leads the way with water savings

by Tuck Thompson

31 October 2006

Brisbane Airport, once the city's third-largest water guzzler, has slashed its potable water consumption by half in the past year by collecting rainwater, landscaping and using recycled water.

It will spend $4 million over the next 18 months, on water-saving infrastructure to save even more.

Queensland Water Commissioner Elizabeth Nosworthy, who toured the airport in advance of level 4 water restrictions, said it was time for business to keep pace with homeowners who had reduced water consumption by 30 per cent.

Under level 4 restrictions which start tomorrow, industries using more than a million litres of water a year must submit plans on how they will cut use by 25 per cent or achieve industry best practice.

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The airport has replaced grass with native tree and plants, irrigated with recycled water and installed rainwater tanks with a million litres of capacity.

It is digging a second 700,000-litre pond, and has enough water to service a new golf course without using drinking water.

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State Government is among the heavy water consumers playing catch-up with water-saving devices. Ms Nosworthy, who admitted recently that her office in the Executive Building annexe didn't have dual-flush toilets, said that would soon be rectified.