Melbourne University team develop a water purification plant that could make Yarra River water drinkable
THE Yarra River is known for many things, but cleanliness probably isn’t one of them. But a team at Melbourne University is attempting to change that.
The university’s school of engineering has developed a water purification plant that could turn the Yarra river into a source of clean drinking water.
The purification plant, which is about the size of a shipping container, will one day be used to treat contaminated water and provide a source of pure, clean drinking water for parts of the world that need it most. Professor Peter Scales said the process was “pretty simple”.
“You just put eight barriers in a row that do everything from getting rid of pollutants to using ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and chlorine,” the deputy dean of the School of Engineering said.
An example of the system can be seen at the University of Melbourne’s free public exhibition, Made Possible by Melbourne, until November 25.