Beattie taste test stunt - tastes like champagne ...
... shows how much he knows.
Anyone who has tasted NEWater - the 100% stuff given out at the Singapore NEWater centre - knows that it tastes odd. Not odd in a 'it will kill you in 5 minutes odd' but just in a 'it has a nothing taste odd'.
Having stripped out most of the minerals, it does taste odd and most people try to follow it up with a drink of something else. That's if you can convince them to drink NEWater in the first place.
A surprising number of Singaporean visitors to the NEWater Centre (remember it's compulsory for school students) refuse to drink it.
So comments that it tastes like champagne are silly - a poor attempt to grab headlines.
See - Beattie Bitter - it's like champagne.
What he's not telling you is - what's left in the recycled water, that there has been no significant testing of the recycled water and there will be no testing for several years (as advocated by the CSIRO) before Premier Beattie opts to force SEQ residents to drink it.
Simple conclusion - buy bottled water company shares ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 3:58 PM
10 Comments:
Notice how Beattie & Bligh aren't saying how much will go into Wivenhoe and what % people will be drinking. They're trying to keep that a closely guarded secret.
4:46 PM, September 02, 2007
Beattie/Bligh - show us where you're testing for the 70,000 chemicals that could be in the recycled water - or are you taking a huge punt with our health?
5:06 PM, September 02, 2007
Even the Brisbane Times calls it a stunt:
"The stunt is part of a PR push by the Premier and his Water Minister to make recycled water widely accepted by the community ahead of its introduction into drinking supplies in the Wivenhoe Dam system next year."
5:25 PM, September 02, 2007
And Beattie says it meets Australian drinking water standards. Except there are no finalised guidelines for drinking recycled water. Who's he trying to fool?
Also from the Brisbane Times:
"Now we have a high-tech plant producing some of the best-grade recycled water in the world, which easily meets Australian drinking water standards."
5:26 PM, September 02, 2007
Did he really drink recycled water or bottled tap water?
6:25 PM, September 02, 2007
Yes buy bottled water and that is exactly why Cr Joe Ramia of Toowoomba City Council supports this scheme.
He owns a large bottle water company and because of it has all the advantages.
I wonder who else has a vested interest?
12:04 PM, September 03, 2007
Typical Beattie stunt
12:07 PM, September 03, 2007
Pied Piper Beattie is trying to lead us all up the garden path with him. It does not mean that what he is doing is good for us but why should he care? This is just one more of the many corrupt things that the Labor Party has been doing ever since the Goss Govt came into office. The health risk could be catastrophic for the community.
5:27 AM, September 04, 2007
Beattie will be off to London or somewhere in Europe soon - far away from all his troubles in Queensland.
10:29 AM, September 04, 2007
I agree he's going soon.
2:29 PM, September 04, 2007
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