WA - we won't drink recycled water ...

Yet another State has joined NSW and SA (and Victoria), acknowledging that there are alternatives to forcing people to drink recycled water.

Excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald:

WA does not need recycled water: Kobelke

29 January 2007

Western Australia is managing its water and does not need to start drinking recycled waste water, the state's Water Minister John Kobelke says.
...

"We can't see the need in WA, because we have the desalination plant, we have got water trading, we're putting in new bores, and our water efficiency has dropped from about 180 kilolitres to about 155 kilolitres per person, per year."

See - SMH - WA opts out.

It should be noted that WA is engaging in a 3 year aquifer recharge experiment.