NWC - GHD report - research flaws ...

A review of the section on Toowoomba's failed project will follow.

But meanwhile - a brief note:

You have to wonder about any document which uses the Toowoomba City Council's one-sided propaganda-laden Water Futures website as a source document for some of its references. Something that would hardly stand up to 'peer-review'.

(See - NWC - GHD report.)

An example: in the section dealing with unplanned potable reuse examples, it quotes Dalby as an example stating that "Toowoomba discharges treated effluent into the Condamine River upstream of the drinking water extract point for Dalby" (See page 70).

While this is currently the case, Dalby obviously recognises that this is bad practice and has taken steps to develop 'best practice' for drinking water and the use of recycled water.

(See - Dalby opts for gas water.)

Dalby has State and Federal government funding to use treated coal seam gas water for its town water supply with recycled water to be used on its parks and gardens. Dalby is the model town for recycled water use.

So the GHD report uses some pretty dodgy references and fails to check its facts. A simple google search would establish that Dalby is moving away from its existing 'bad practices'.

But then again, maybe the report's authors didn't want to highlight this fact - it doesn't reflect well on their attempts to justify people drinking recycled water.

Just a thought ...