Senator Bartlett starts a petition ...

In what may be part of a swansong from politics, Senator Bartlett has started a petition in favour of drinking recycled sewage - to be presented to the State government and local councils.

An excerpt (annotated):

Bartlett petitions for recycled water

By Rachael Langford

22 July 2006

Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett has launched a petition calling for the use of recycled water in southeast Queensland.

The collected signatures will be presented to State Parliament and local councils, and will also offer support to residents in Toowoomba and the Mary Valley, Senator Bartlett said today.

[It won't be very supportive to Toowoomba residents if there is a resounding NO vote next Saturday.]

Five hundred residents face losing their homes if plans to build a dam on the Mary River, south of Gympie, go ahead.

[Senator Bartlett seems to think that the ONLY alternative to dams is making people drink recycled sewage. It's not.]

Meanwhile, Toowoomba residents will decide in a referendum on July 29 whether or not the rural city will accept recycled water.

Senator Bartlett says there's a lot less resistance to recycled water in the southeast Queensland community than the politicians assume.

[Senator Bartlett obviously hasn't seen the polling done by Premier Beattie on exactly this point.]

Source- The Australian - Bartlett petitions for recycled water.


He's running out of time to collect signatures before the Toowoomba referendum next Saturday.

The last time a pro-drinking recycled sewage petition was announced (by the former Pure H20), it imploded spectacularly without the signed petition ever seeing the light of day.

Perhaps Senator Bartlett should speak to CADS - they have over 10,000 signatures on their petition - but wait, their petition is against putting recycled sewage into the drinking water system ...