Melbourne office worker attitudes to recycled water use

Abstract

This paper reports results from a study of office worker attitudes to recycled water use. Survey respondents were employees of the City of Melbourne, some of whom will soon be working in the innovative Council House 2 office building. This building incorporates the use of recycled water through 'sewer mining' activity. Recycled water will be used in the cooling tower system, for toilet flushing, street cleaning, and street tree watering in the central business district. This is the first investigation of office worker attitudes to recycled water use in Australia, thus the results of this study are of importance to informing the feasibility of recycled water in such a context in Australia and..