Sydney Water plans to build new facilities inland and expand a pilot scheme to recycle wastewater for drinking, but will need outfalls for foreseeable future
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Sydney Water plans to spend $32bn to improve the city’s sewerage system over the next 15 years but waste will continue to be pumped into the ocean off its famous eastern suburbs beaches.
The water authority says it doesn’t plan to upgrade the Malabar, Bondi and North Head sewage treatment plants but it will send less waste through them once it overhauls the rest of the city’s water infrastructure.
