Toowoomba votes - 29 July 2006 ...

Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan ...

... Mayor Thorley concedes defeat.

From ABC News:

Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan

29 July 2006

The Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland's biggest inland city, has conceded defeat over a proposal to add recycled water to drinking supplies.

Toowoomba residents were asked to approve a plan to draw 25 per cent of the city's water from recycled effluent.

With 32,000 of 60,000 votes counted, 62 per cent of residents have voted against the proposal.

Lyle Shelton is one of three councillors who campaigned against the proposal and is encouraged by the early result.

"That's probably about what the 'no' case was expecting," he said.

A short time ago, Mayor Di Thorley conceded the city would not be drinking recycled water.

"At the end of the day, we still don't have a water project," she said.

She says it is now up to the Queensland Government to drought-proof the city.

Source - ABC News - NO case wins.