60 Minutes on the Toowoomba water debate ...

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There's no polite way to say this, so we'll be blunt about it.

How would you go drinking your own waste, drinking re-cycled sewage?

Don't laugh, it's a prospect we could all be facing in the very near future. For the people of Toowoomba out on the Darling Downs, that fateful day's already here.

Like much of this country, Queensland's garden city is dying of thirst. And the mayor says the only solution is to turn the town's toilet water into tap water.

Radical, sure, but you'd think the locals would all go along with it.

No way.

There's a referendum next Saturday and it's torn the town apart.

Full program - Sunday 23 July.