Premier Beattie proposes water grid ...

... but will it include Toowoomba?

Excerpt from ABC News:

Govt proposes solution to south-east Qld water crisis

11 June 2006

Premier Peter Beattie says the Queensland Government is planning a pipeline network that will aim to fix the south-east's water shortage.

Despite much-needed rain providing some relief in regional Queensland, the water crisis remains, with rain having no impact on Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine dams.

The dams have dropped to 30 per cent capacity and level three water restrictions were enacted yesterday and will take effect on Tuesday.

People in south-east Queensland will only be allowed to use buckets to water their gardens under the latest restrictions.

Mr Beattie says although the Government has a broad strategy to address the water crisis, more rains are the key.

"We cannot make it rain - I wish we could," Mr Beattie said.

"So what we are going to do is have a water grid similar to an electricity grid and that means a pipeline network that will take water from one part of the state, particularly the south-east corner of the state to another."

Source - ABC News - Govt proposes solution to south-east Qld water crisis.