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Assignment | Wastewater Management of Melbourne Water

   

Added on  2020-04-01

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MELBOURNE WATER CSRBY (STUDENT’S NAME)PROFESSOR’S NAMECOLLEGECOURSEDATE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY •Melbourne Water supplies drinking as well as recycled water besides manages Melbourne’s water supply catchment, and rivers, creeks, sewage treatment alongside main drainage systems. •Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant (WTP) is located in Werribee, southwest of Melbourne and the largest water treatment facility in Victoria. •It is treating over half of the city’s wastewater. •The WTP contributes much past wastewater management including a substantial recycled water program for the domestic irrigators that offer essential support for the food production for the ever growing city over four million. •The WTP remains an extraordinary asset for the community of Victoria as well as a world class instances of sustainability.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CONT.•WTP generates almost forty billion liters of the recycled water yearly, and runs in a holistic, integrated manner acknowledging the environment as a fundamental portion of the treatment system. •The WTP achieves the low cost sewage treatment through gravity flows, lagoon treatment, renewable energy as well as recycled water application to land under use for vast acre cropping. •The WTP further utilizes biogas to meet nearly all its electricity requirements that bars 87,000 tons of CO2 from emission via burning of the fossil fuels per year. •The Plant uses diverse water sources like rainwater, recycled water as well as stormwater as an important component of decreasing the demand on water supply system. •The plant uses the recycled water for supporting the local agriculture, sustainable as well as management besides economic development.

INTRODUCTION •The paper presents a description and discussion of how the components of CSR (environmental and social) are practiced in Melbourne Water. •It further presents a perspective by evaluating how the two components of CSR in Melbourne Water impact the local community. •Finally, the report presents a brief discussion supported by appropriate literature on CSR linked to what has been outlined above.

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