The 4350water Blog highlights some of the issues relating to proposals for potable reuse in Toowoomba and South East Qld. 4350water blog looks at related political issues as well.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:43 AM
For many years, the 4350water blog has informed readers of plans by the Toowoomba City Council (now Toowoomba Regional Council) and the Qld government to introduce recycled water for drinking in Toowoomba. It has also looked at the issue from a State and Federal perspective and dealt with related State and Federal political issues. There continues to be a need for the Toowoomba Regional Council to be completely transparent in its dealings with the ratepayers and residents of Toowoomba. There also continues to be a need for open debate on the benefits and risks of potable reuse and long-term studies on the effects on humans of drinking recycled water. Coal seam gas water is emerging as a possible alternate water source for some uses for the region. The 4350water blog is a collective effort and thanks go to its many contributors.
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3 Comments:
If we are going to have the flooding rain then we had better get on and build the dams!
We have to elect governments who are committed to tackling these large scale projects and we should never be faced with the option of have water sourced from the back end of a sewage plant for our drinking supplies.
I think that this is just a 30 year cycle and we are about to come out of it and we will enjoy seasons of plenty. There are experts who support this theory and not all this gloom and doom of the "Global Warming".
Of course if we believe Peter Beattie and we are at the "Armageddon" and that my friends means:- the END!!!!
12:44 PM, April 08, 2007
Quote: The fact that the Earth's atmospheric temperature is rising at the same time as humans emit more greenhouse gases is a correlation, and not a causation: "The Earth's temperature rose by 0.7 per cent in the 20th century, but there was also an increase in piracy. Does that mean piracy causes global warming?"
1:04 PM, April 08, 2007
Just a little twist on this compared to this and all the talk about recycling effluent for drinking that has occured over the last twelve months. Makes me wonder! Its just too easy to blame Global Warming for our rainfall problems and it doesn't make much sense to say that there could be a 40 to 60% drop in average rainfall permanently that would take place in a such a short period as 6 to 8 years. There was a heavy thunderstorm heading north toward Toowoomba a few days back and by the time it arrived here it had dispersed and almost vanished. Is that global warming, coincidence or what because it sure seems to be a regular occurence lately and everyone here knows that. It is that flamin dry here in Toowoomba at the moment you could swear we were in the Simpson desert instead of a humid subtropical mountainous region with an almost constant moist Easterly trade wind blowing as it has over the last several months!
6:05 PM, April 10, 2007
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