No dam, and no recycled water ... not ever ...

Excerpt from Sunshine Coast Daily:

No dam, and no recycled water ... not ever

20 March 2007

Sunshine Coast residents are overwhelmingly against the Traveston Dam but two in three would not drink recycled water.

More than 900 residents from across the Coast have had their say on issues affecting our region.

The Your Coast Your Say survey, run by the Sunshine Coast Daily and Seven Local News, revealed that 87% of people opposed the state government's Traveston Dam plan.

Surprisingly, 12% voted in favour of it.
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"What this says is that we know the people of south-east Queensland are in crisis and require water, but that we should not build a dam because there are other sources of water that should be developed," Mr Ingersole said.

He said harvesting stormwater and implementing rainwater tanks, as well as using recycled water, would remove the need to build a dam.
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A total of 65% of respondents said Sunshine Coast residents should not be forced to drink recycled water, while only 32% said they would drink it.

See - Recycled water gets the thumbs down.