Purified Recycled Water

Many of our major metro and regional areas suffered diminishing water supplies during the recent droughts and many have now realised that purifying our used waters and recycling the product back into our overall water supply creates a safe ‘climate resilient’ water supply that will serve us well into the future.

 

Ian Law is a Chemical Engineer with a Masters Degree in Public Health Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and a Fellow of the Singapore Water Academy. After completing his Masters degree in 1974, he worked for consulting engineering firms in South Africa and Australia in the water space, before starting his own business, IBL Solutions, in 2003. He has been involved in advanced water recycling projects in Southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the US and Australia throughout his
career. Ian also has connections with Rotary; he was a Charter Member of South Africa’s first multi-racial club, Pretoria 6, in 1981, a member of the St Ives Club in Sydney for a number of years in the late 1980s to early 1990s and President of the Wellington NSW club in 2006 – one of Australia’s oldest clubs that was chartered in 1947.

Danielle Francis won a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, sponsored by Rotary District 9680. Her patron club was Lindfield Rotary. She studied French media at the University of Rennes, in Brittany, France for a year in 2000 - 2001. She learned a great deal about French media and society. She is a Project Manager at Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA).  Danielle wrote WSAA's All Options on the Table - Lessons from the Journeys of Others report, about community engagement on purified recycled water for drinking. She researches many aspects of purified recycled water around the world including demonstration projects, visitor centres and education materials and approaches, and is on a Project Advisory Committee for the Water Research Foundation in America. In her work with WSAA she leads advocacy work supporting the need for all options to be considered for water supply planning.