Beattie considers 100m ziplock bags to transport water to Qld ......
Excerpt from Sunday Mail:
Hunt is on to beat drought
24 June 2007
The State Government will look at alternative emergency water supplies if drought extends into the next decade and if its current measures to not deliver enough water.
Premier Peter Beattie said an infrastructure briefing paper looked at options such as mobile and small fixed desalination plants, hauling treated and raw water from New Zealand and Tasmania, and enlarging the Tugun desalination plant.
One suggestion from a US company to the Government was to collect water in 100m-long zip-up bags and tow them by ship to drought-affected areas.
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See - Courier Mail - Beattie looks for additional solutions - realises recycled water is not the answer.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:38 AM
1 Comments:
I would like to put Beattie and Turnbull in a Zip Bag and pull them along - what next are we going to hear?
At least they seem to realise that recycled water ins not the golden bullet that all its sympathisers thought it would be
4:03 PM, June 26, 2007
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