Toowoomba makes the Canberra Times ...
An excerpt:
Rural councils are already recycling sewage and stormwater to irrigate farms and flush toilets. Shoalhaven City Council recycles 80 per cent of the region's wastewater, providing enough reclaimed water to irrigate 14 dairy farms, two golf courses and sporting fields.
But some cities are more squeamish. Toowoomba City Council is struggling to convince its 90,000 residents that urban wastewater can be reused, and has spent $500,000 on a campaign to win support for urban water recycling.
Former mayor Clive Berghoffer says property prices will plummet if the scheme goes ahead.
"We had the image of a garden city here with a carnival of flowers," he says. "Now it being called 'Poowoomba' and that's not good for our image."
Source - Canberra Times - Battle lines drawn in contest to conserve our liquid assets.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 2:12 PM
1 Comments:
I wonder who wrote the script that all of the politicians follow.
Australians are independent people and will not be told what to do and especially they will not use recycled sewage as the water supply and any government who try will pay the price.
Howard should try to put it in Canberra and his own electorate if he is so confident of the source of this water.
Liberal Party seats will fall!
7:05 PM, July 22, 2006
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