Yatala Brewery Queensland
In over 20 years, Charlie Foxhall has led the development of innovative water efficiency and recycling measures that have reduced overall water consumption by 60 per cent, and reduced the load on the local sewerage treatment plant.Yatala’s ratio of 2.3 litres of water used to make 1 litre of beer is world’s best practice, and well ahead of the global benchmark of 5 – 6 litres of water to each litre of beer.

Latrobe Valley Buslines Victoria
Company Director Rhonda Renwick has always been conscious of making the business socially and environmentally responsible. Two 16,000 litre rainwater tanks have been installed. Rain water is now used to wash buses, saving some 192,000 litres of water a year. This water saving initiative is being advertised on three of the buses that travel within Morwell and between Morwell & Churchill.

Richmond Water Reuse Project New South Wales
Located on the University of Western Sydney Estate, the project involved the construction of a series of stormwater retention basins, canals and wetlands. The system is now capable of collecting and treating 400 mega litres of stormwater each year. Once treated, the now clean water can be used as a resource by the University, Richmond TAFE and Richmond Golf Club.

Rippon Lea Estate Victoria
Original owner, Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, was a visionary. His European-style gardens on 11 ha of uncultivated land in 1868 flourished with an irrigation system that harnessed stormwater and a natural spring. He also developed underground rainwater tanks for use inside the mansion, and made use of household and stable waste for fertilising his gardens.

Cadbury Schweppes located in Melbourne, has recognised the need to reduce reliance on drinking water through the installation of a rainwater harvesting system. This system is responsible for the collection of rainwater which is then used to supply the site’s cooling towers, as well as toilets and gardens. This system has seen a huge reduction in Cadbury Schweppes’ reliance on drinking water by about 7.5 million litres per year.

Victoria’s State Netball Hockey Centre was the first hockey stadium in the world to introduce an irrigation system designed to capture and reuse recycled water. The system collects rainwater and stores it in underground tanks before using it to irrigate the Centre’s hockey pitches. By installing this system, the Centre is able to reduce the amount of quality drinking water previously used to water pitches by 80 per cent per year.