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More of us are drinking recycled sewage water than most people realise

  • Written by Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
The Hawkesbury's waters look beautifully natural but treated sewage makes up to 20% of the river flow where the North Richmond Filtration Plant draws its water.Karl Baron/flickr, CC BY

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