Indirect potable use not on Federal Government agenda ...

In a Letter to the Editor published in the Courier Mail on 1 August 2005, Mr Greg Hunt, Federal Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment made an interesting point:

"[n]either I nor the Federal Government wants Australians to drink treated sewerage effluent. Our objective is to recycle this water for use in industry and agriculture".

See: Water Futures blog.

If this is the view of the Federal Government, surely the National Water Commission will refuse to provide a grant for the Toowoomba I-PU! project ...