is more effective. wastewater reuse when there are droughts in australia interest in reclaimed effluent options increases. two major capital cities in australia, adelaide and brisbane, have already committed to adding reclaimed effluent to their dwindling dams. the former has also built a desalination plant to help battle any future water shortages. brisbane has been seen as a leader in this trend, and other cities and towns will review the western corridor recycled water project once completed. goulbourn, canberra, newcastle, and regional victoria, australia are already considering building a reclaimed effluent process. indirect potable reuse (ipr) has been considered for regional communities in goulburn, nsw, the australian capital territory (act) and toowoomba, queensland. in 2005, residents of toowoomba rejected the proposal to reuse recycled water as drinking water in toowoomba water futures referendum. the western corridor recycled water scheme in south east queensland was designed and built to produce drinking quality water suitable for release into the wivenhoe dam, brisbane's principal water storage. the advanced wastewater treatment plant (wwtp) incorporated microfiltration (mf) and reverse osmosis (ro) followed by an advanced oxidation system using uv-light and hydrogen peroxide to remove specific disinfection by-products and non-specific low molecular weight organics. the project had a production capacity of 232,000 m3 per day and over 200 km of interconnecting and product water delivery pipelines. in perth in western australia, the western australia water corporation operated a three-year demonstration project investigating the feasibility of reclaiming water from the beenyup wastewater treatment plant using mf, ro and uv disinfection prior to injection into the leederville aquifer (production of 5,000 m3 per day). the demonstration concluded in 2012, and in 2013 the western australian government agreed to a full-scale groundwater recharge scheme, which commenced construction in 2014. when complete, the full-scale facility will provide 14,000,000 m3 per annum to the aquifers supplying perth's drinking water, with the option to expand to 28,000,000 m3 per annum in the future. while there are currently no full-scale direct potable reuse schemes operating in australia, the australian antarctic division is investigating the option of installing a potable reuse scheme at its davis research base in antarctica. to enhance the quality of the marine discharge from the davis wastewater treatment plant, a number of different, proven technologies have been selected to be used in the future, such as ozonation, uv disinfection, chlorine, as well as uf, activated carbon filtration and ro. non-potable reuse (npr) examples: melbourne, mount buller ski resort uses recycled water for snow making, sydney. reclaimed water has been proposed, but not yet implemented, for either potable or non-potable use in these locations: south east queensland (planned for potable use as of late 2010), newcastle (proposed for non-potable use as of 2006), canberra (proposed in january 2007 as a backup source of potable water)