Australian State Government's insane water grid experiment ...

Some interesting observations on the Toowoomba Water Debate:

Excerpt from Republic Broadcasting:

Australian State Government's Insane Water Grid Experiment

A corporate government conglomerate in the so-called ‘Smart State’ of Queensland, Australia, plans subject some three million citizens to a dangerous experiment that will inject so-called purified sewage directly into a dam supplying household water.

Against the wishes of residents and ignoring the most basic law of hygiene to separate human bodily waste from food and water, the government will conduct the experiment in league with multinational water corporations including Veolia Water and Haliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown Root (KBR).
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Two years ago the Queensland Government decided to hold a referendum to test public opinion on setting up a waste water recycling plant for the city of Toowoomba and region (pop. 60,000). Bureaucrats spent an estimated $1 million to call in celebrities, run television campaigns, let people taste ‘recycled’ water samples and so on in order to convince them of the ‘wisdom’ of their plan.

The Federal Government meanwhile, promised to pour $23 million into the recycling scheme if the residents voted in favor. But the campaign flopped dismally, with 61 per cent of people saying ‘no’.

Funny how common sense can sometimes overrule the dazzling ‘solutions’ of corporate-sponsored science.

The campaign run by the bureaucrats and their corporate backers made some shocking errors that demonstrated the shoddy science on which the whole notion of recycling sewage is based.

Early on a ‘Pure H2O’ campaign was launched, claiming the UNESCO-backed reverse osmosis technology allowed ‘only water molecules to pass through the treatment machinery’. The local Toowoomba City Council published information supporting this erroneous notion.

However, the information was later changed to show ‘small organic molecules’ passing through barrier membranes. Opponents maintained that small amounts of anything contained in the source sewage water could pass through the system. Proponents retreated to the position that you would have to drink unrealistically huge amounts of the water for any significant accumulation of chemicals of concern to occur in the body – the same argument they use for fluoridation.

Was it any wonder that local food industries in the region politely requested alternative supplies of water if the referendum said yes? No doubt the food manufacturers are well aware that Middle Eastern cultures would not countenance the idea of human waste going anywhere near the water supply.

And then there was the problem of proteins call prions, that are associated with BSE (mad cow disease) that can be passed into sewage from humans. The knowledge of this caused the Australian Red Cross to ban blood donors from the UK. The recycling opponents pointed out no data were available to estimate the amount of prion material in sewage wastewater as they simply did not test for it.

“While the risk of prion transmission by potable water re-use may be considered small, the fatal nature of this illness and limitations on current knowledge means that concerns cannot be entirely dismissed,’’ they said.

Fears were further raised when it found the ‘benchmark’ National Waste Water Study for Australia had only one page on microbiological studies which recycling opponents said was ‘dismally void of any medical or scientific data’.

After the folk of Toowoomba and district rejected recycled sewage in their water, hand-wringing among the bureaucrats, ‘scientific experts’ and others started in earnest.
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See - Australian State Government's Insane Water Grid Experiment.

In all fairness to the defunct Pure H2O group, the Toowoomba City Council launched their 'nothing gets through the membranes' campaign based on dodgy Singapore NEWater brochures (they didn't take any notice of the NEWwater video which showed the opposite) before the unfortunately named Pure H2O had its still-birth launch at the Mothers Memorial ...