Southern Water project managers were “intransigent” and had “made up their mind” over the company’s Sandown Water Recycling plans during a meeting, an Isle of Wight councillor has claimed. Water Recycling PlantThe application includes the building of a Water Recycling Plant on land to the south of Sandown Wastewater Treatment Works, an outfall into the Eastern Yar and a pipeline from the facility to the Eastern Yar by Alverstone. However, a spokesperson for Southern Water said the Water Recycling Project is part of a series of schemes that will create ‘new drought-proof sources of water’, providing greater resilience for the Island. Southern Water in turn claimed water recycling is a “proven and safe” process which is “widely used around the world”. Their spokesperson said,“The Isle of Wight Water Recycling Project is part of a series of schemes that will create new drought-proof sources of water.