Every year, we treat around 95,000 megalitres (95,000,000,000 litres) of wastewater at our four plants serving metropolitan Adelaide.

In 2004, SA Water completed our $240 million Environment Improvement Program. The aims of the program were to:

• Increase the effectiveness of our metropolitan wastewater treatment plants
• Reduce the amount of treated wastewater entering Gulf St Vincent
• Recycle high quality treated wastewater for irrigation purposes

In this section of our website you can find out more about the individual projects at:

• Bolivar - which has resulted in high quality treated wastewater being piped to vegetable growers on the Northern Adelaide Plains.
• Port Adelaide - which is eliminating discharge of treated wastewater to the Port River.
• Glenelg - where treated wastewater is being used to irrigate parks and will be used for the Glenelg to Adelaide Park Lands Recycled Water Project.
• Christies Beach - which is providing treated wastewater to the wine growing region of McLaren Vale.

There is also information about:

• Recycled water
• Biosolids
• Wastewater treatment process