Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Your brief is to research this topic and present a series of recommendations to the council
about how it could meet the brief from City West Water. This assignment has two
components: 1) a group component; and 2) an individual component. The overall assignment
is worth 40% of your course mark with 20% each for the group and individual components.
Each group will consist of 4-6 members. As a team, you will write:
1) An introduction of about 1000-1200 words that will state the aims and objectives of your
report and introduces greywater while citing relevant literature and identifying knowledge
gaps. This section needs to include at least 10 references.
2) A site description of about 300-500 words that describes your assigned council.
3) A discussion of about 1000-1500 words that details your chosen strategy (or strategies) for
using greywater in the council in the context of examples from other places where greywater
has been shown to be either beneficial or not beneficial (as derived from the scientific
literature). This section should report on how much water savings could be achieved by using
greywater, how much it would cost, how quickly it could be implemented and how you
would implement it.
4) A conclusion of about 200-300 words that summarises your findings, identifies any
problems or uncertainties, and tells us what the next step would be if council was to proceed
with your suggestions.
As an individual within the group (denoted by including your name and student # next to
the relevant topic heading in the report) you will choose (in consultation with your group to
avoid repetition) one aspect of greywater and write 1000-1500 words about this aspect. Topic
areas you might consider include: domestic greywater treatment systems; environmental
greywater treatment systems (e.g., wetlands); treatment in wastewater treatment plants; dual
reticulation systems; greywater classes and uses; health issues and other risks; integrated
water cycle management; and any other topic area that you find that might be of interest to a
local council.
Each individuals section must include no fewer than eight references, no more than 25% of
which may come from the grey literature.
The report needs to take the form of a professional scientific research report. This means it
needs to include material derived from the scientific literature (journals, conferences and
edited books that have undergone peer-review). The report as a whole should include at least
50 references with no more than 25% being from sources other than those listed above (e.g.,
grey literature government reports, text books). As this is a scientific report, web pages
(which are unverifiable sources of opinion) are not valid references for this report. Note:
online journal articles are not web pagesthey are peer-reviewed papers that have been
published online and, as such, are valid for inclusion in this project.
Note that for all word limits, references and Figure and Table headings do not count towards
the word limit.
The format of the report must follow that provided in the formatting guidelines
document.