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Sewage treatment

Do you throw your wet wipes down the loo? Well this is for you! Our wastewater system is being clogged with masses of wet wipes from people flushing them.

environment

It’s vital the discharged water from our sewage management process is clean enough to ensure not only the health of the environment, but of the animals living in it and surrounding human populations.

Lower Molonglo 1978

It’s hard to imagine what wastewater management was like in the ACT before the Lower Molonglo Water Quality Control Centre (LMWQCC), added much needed quality to Canberra’s treatment process back in the late 70’s.

Lower Molonglo 1978

What is wastewater? A bit of a silly name for something that isn’t actually wasted. All of the wastewater (or sewage) that we collect is treated and returned to the environment. How is it different to sewerage? Sewerage is the infrastructure that carries our wastewater (or sewage) from your home or work to our treatment plants.

ACTEW staff

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World Toilet Day

On World Toilet Day it’s comforting to think how lucky we are in Canberra, it could be so different. It is incredible to think that more people in the world have a mobile phone than a toilet, a simple thing that we generally take for granted.

Emotional brands

There is something magical about brands which extend beyond the obvious. For some marketing and communication experts, brand ‘zen’ is reached when the product, good or service becomes accepted language. Years ago my parents would ask me to ‘pass the biro’ … today we don’t search but ‘Google’, while changing the meaning of tagging, posting and liking for a generation.