QUALITY — NOT DEGREE OF TREATMENT

Effluent quality is currently described in terms of the degree of treatment it has received — primary, secondary, advanced secondary and tertiary. The terms are not well defined and are meaningless to the layperson who wants to know what the water can safely be used for, so we use the Star Rating System to describe water quality. This takes us from 0-star waste-d-water to 6-star water that is as pure as modern technology can make it.

We want to know what the water can safely be used for.