brewery in south-east Queensland in 2005, implementing an advanced treatment system for on-site water recycling. The $20 million on a quarter of the water used by the group in 1993.
An acknowledged leader in water use, Foster's closed its Kent to Yatala, upgrading capacity and technology.
The brewery has 15 per cent.
Abbotsford brewery in Melbourne, halving water use to 3.5 litres of water for each litre of beer produced.
"We were already ahead of global best practice on water use," says Russell Peel, the director of health, safety and environment each year, the Yatala brewery uses 2.3 litres of water to brew one standard.
touches the product.
Virtually everything else - keg washing, vacuum pumps, washdown hoses, cooling towers and boilers and toilet flushing - uses recycled water.
returns it to drinkable water quality. "Our recycled water is just as good as that which comes out of a tap," Peel says.
use it for cooling towers instead of using fresh water. At Yatala, beer, water and yeast) we purify it for hosing down or cleaning and other uses on site other than producing beer. We went to another level of water recycling.
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treatment plant, where contaminants are removed and the water is released back into the environment. Foster's water purification technology goes much further. Similar to that used in Western Australia for sea water desalination, it removes membrane plant and quality.
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