Alternatives exist for water ...

Letter to the Editor, the Chronicle:

27 May 2006

Alternatives exist for water

The deception goes on as we now know that gas water is safe and yet the six pack in our council and our city engineer would have you believe it is dangerous.

The big news on the Dalby project to use gas water in the town supply blows that theory out of the water, so to speak.

Well done Warwick Geisel and his team.

Now the Toowoomba folk have to concentrate on voting no to the poo-rified water to be piped into Cooby Dam which is to be used as our drinking water.

Shame on the Thorley team as it is so un-Australian to stack the deck on the ordinary people as they intend to spend $460,000 on the campaign for the yes campaign and nil on the no case.

Huge amounts of money have been spent by the council to date to convince the ratepayers that there were "no other options" and there are.

We have dams being built by Premier Beattie to the east which makes a pipe from there viable, we have gas water to the west and farmers who want to exchange water too.

RM
Toowoomba