The No case tip No vote win on Saturday ...

Excerpt from the Courier Mail (annotated):

Objectors tip no vote win

27 July 2006

Opponents of Toowoomba City Council's plan to turn recycled sewage into drinking water are predicting a resounding win at Saturday's referendum.

The poll will determine whether treated wastewater makes up 25 per cent of drinking supplies in Toowoomba, which has been on water restrictions for a decade.

Similar schemes operate around the world, including Orange County, California.

[Similar schemes? NO other city in the world asks its residents to drink 25% recycled sewage - Toowoomba would be the first.]

Mayor Dianne Thorley, who is leading the "yes" campaign, said the weekend referendum result would be "lineball".

But Rosemary Morley, co-ordinator of Citizens Against Drinking Sewage, said Toowoomba residents did not want to be "lab rats for the rest of Australia". "I'm very confident it will be a no vote," she said.

Ms Morley said only 25 per cent of residents supported the proposal.

"When we can't get the evidence other than the council saying 'scientists say it's safe', ... there's no way in the world we're going to say yes to it," she said.

Source - Courier Mail - Objectors tip no vote win.