4 December 2008
A £30 million upgrade of Scottish Water's treatment works in Perthshire is underway to improve water quality for customers served by the plant.
As well as the construction of a 2.5 million litre processing tank, the refurbishment programme will also see the addition of a modern hydro turbine, the BBC reports.
This will make the plant more sustainable by allowing it to generate its own electricity and sell excess energy to the national grid.
Once the work is completed, the Turret treatment plant will be able to process an extra 85 million litres of water a day for the residents of Perthshire and Stirlingshire.
"Turret is the highest water treatment works in the UK and we will be using this to our advantage," said project manager Alan Mansfield. "Water will be distributed from the works using gravity, rather than energy-sapping pumps."
By 2010, Scottish Water hopes to improve the quality of drinking water for 1.5 million people with millions of pounds worth of investment.