Why drinking recycled water is a hard sell ...
The University of Wollongong paper - Public perceptions of desalinated versus recycled water in Australia by Sara Dolnicar and Andrea Schaefer highlights the difficulty of trying to convince people to drink recycled water.
Below is a table from this paper. Note drinking recycled water achieves only 11% support.
Likelihood of use (recycled water)
- Firefighting - 77%
- Toilet flushing - 77%
- Irrigation of golf courses - 72%
- Irrigation of recreational parks - 72%
- Irrigation of sports fields - 77%
- Watering the garden (flowers, trees, shrubs) - 70%
- Washing the house, windows, driveways - 63%
- Washing the car - 63%
- Watering of garden - vegetables, herbs - 59%
- Washing clothes, doing laundry - 40%
- Air conditioning - 35%
- Refilling/topping up the swimming pool - 29%
- Fish pond or aquarium - 29%
- Showering - 22%
- Taking a bath - 20%
- Religious/spiritual rituals - 18%
- Cooking - 15%
- Brushing teeth - 12%
- Drinking - 11%
- Bathing the baby - 11%
See - Public perceptions of desalinated versus recycled water in Australia.
Mayor Thorley used $460,000 of ratepayers' money (plus the amounts spent on CH2M Hill) to try to convince Toowoomba residents to drink a mix of 25-29% recycled water - and failed.
Premier Beattie is now embarking on a similar course, except he will spend $10 million of taxpayers' money to try to convince you to drink recycled water - potentially at a mix far higher than proposed for Toowoomba - if there is no rain.
Every statistical study indicates he will fail ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:46 AM
1 Comments:
Maybe Beattie should offer a free toilet with every Yes vote:
Toilet tank doubles as aquarium
12 January 2007
Home renovators looking to bring life to the smallest room in their home now have the chance - with a toilet that doubles as an aquarium.
The Fish'n Flush is a clear two-piece toilet tank that replaces a standard toilet tank, with a see-through aquarium wrapping itself around a conventional toilet tank.
"We wanted to develop a product that had a dual purpose - to serve as a proper, fully functional toilet and also as a source of entertainment and conversation," said Devon Niccole, marketing director of California-based designer AquaOne Technologies, which has just started to selling the tank.
He said the company, which specialises in water conservation equipment for home appliances, had worked with a marine biologist to design a tank that ensured the fish were not harmed when the toilet was flushed.
The aquarium toilet tank, which sells for $US299 ($383), fits most toilets with the aquarium piece able to be easily removed for cleaning.
8:35 PM, January 15, 2007
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