Anna Bligh's recycled water scare ...

... someone asks her to drink some of the first Bundamba Plant recycled water in Parliament.

She refused.

Huge PR blunder.

Maybe Anna suffers from the YUK factor.

See - Water Futures blog - Anna refuses recycled water.

Excerpt from Hansard:

Hon. AM BLIGH (South Brisbane—ALP) (Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure) (9.51 am): Today I have good news. This is south-east Queensland’s first recycled water.

Opposition members: Drink it! Drink it! Drink it! Down, down, down!

See - Hansard - 23 August 2007.

What was her concern?

Premier Beattie earlier refer to it by his pet name 'purified recycled water'.

"Purified recycled water will be delivered to Swanbank Power Station by the end of the month, as promised."

Excerpt from the Courier Mail:

Queensland's Deputy Premier and Infrastructure Minister presented Parliament with the first bottle of purified recycled water from the new water grid yesterday - but refused to drink it.

See - Recycled water not for drinking ... yet.

You can bet she'll be sipping on bottled water in Parliament House while forcing SEQ residents to gulp down the recycled stuff ...