Mayor Thorley to Melbourne audience - if they don't like it they can buy bottled water ...
Mayor Thorley was in Melbourne today, making a case study presentation on the Water Futures project at the Australian Water Summit (airfare, meals etc at ratepayers' expense no doubt).
Once again she commented that: "We're saying there are actually alternatives and if you feel that you can't drink the water you can put in a tank or purchase bottled water."
Here is the Mayor once again telling people to buy bottled water.
Obviously this is discriminatory - there are plenty of people in Toowoomba whose weekly budget doesn't stretch to buying bottled water. So they would be forced to drink the Mayor's recycled sewage.
Mayor Thorley obviously hasn't read the previous article on the environmental problems associated with greater demand for bottled water ...
See - Mayor Thorley on tour.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 4:25 PM
3 Comments:
HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO ''CAN'T AFFORD'' TO BUY BOTTLED WATER, CAN SOMEHOW AFFORD TO BUY CIGARETTES,COCA COLA ,MCDONALDS OR KFC ,BEER ,LOTTO ETC ? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO IF YOU RUN OUT OF WATER? I BET THEN PEOPLE WILL FIND THE MONEY TO BUY BOTTLED WATER .
8:03 PM, February 24, 2006
There are certainly those who spend their money on such "wants" but there is a section of the community who genuinely cannot afford the luxury of buying bottled water if they disagree with drinking recycled sewage.
This is discrimination on the part of the Mayor.
It is also extremely arrogant for an elected official to tell the community that if you don't like her decision you can incur cost to avoid it.
9:09 PM, February 24, 2006
If the Council runs out of water, then it really is the Council's fault. They have sat on their hands for 7 months while they wait for a decision on their ill-conceived project.
Any rational Council would have listened to the community's concerns and undertaken a genuine comparison of alternatives, not the whitewash performed by the Council.
9:11 PM, February 24, 2006
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