Gold Coast quickly sidesteps recycled water for drinking ...

... how many more parts of SEQ will do the same?

Excerpt from ABC News:

Recycled water a long way off for Gold Coast: Clarke

29 January 2007

Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke says his constituents will not be drinking recycled water for at least a decade.

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says the drought is so bad, there is no choice but to add recycled water to south-east Queensland's drinking supplies on an ongoing basis.

Councillor Clarke says the Gold Coast will give water to the south-east Queensland water grid, but will not need to take water from Wivenhoe Dam supplies for many years.

"The water commission will say what water goes where, but when you have the desalination plant and what our usual yield is and the fact that we are also raising the height of the Hinze Dam [it] all adds to the fact that we won't be needing any water from the Wivenhoe, but Brisbane, or Logan, or Beaudesert, or Ipswich will be needing water from us," he said.

See - Gold Coast: no need for 'Beattie Bitter'.