Queenslanders to drink recycled water ...
Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald:
Queenslanders to drink recycled water
21 October 2008
Queenslanders in the state's south-east will be drinking purified recycled water from March next year, Premier Anna Bligh has confirmed.
"Purified recycled water" includes that recycled from sewage treatment plants.
While other schemes use purified recycled water for industry, Queenslanders will be the first in Australia to drink it.
Ms Bligh has witnessed the placement of the last pipe in a 208km water grid linking water recycling plants to power stations, advanced water treatment plants and the region's dams.
It is the largest recycled water project in the Southern Hemisphere and a major part of the $9 billion water grid in the fast-growing and drought-stricken region.
"Queensland is on the verge of becoming one of the most environmentally and efficiently-run water systems in Australia - and one of the best in the world.
"With this recycled water project the people of south-east Queensland will become the most efficient and effective users and re-users of water anywhere in Australia."
Ms Bligh said the recycled water scheme was attracting interest from overseas.
"Ultimately it will have the capacity to deliver 232 Megalitres into our system," she said.
"This is about half of south-east Queensland's water supply.
"This is a critical part of drought-proofing south-east Queensland."
She said testing of the system and its water quality would proceed, with recycled water to be delivered into Brisbane's drinking supply, Wivenhoe Dam, from February or March 2009.
Ms Bligh reiterated her belief that the Traveston Crossing Dam, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland north of Brisbane, is critical to future water supplies in the region.
She said the federal government would not make a final decision on the dam until March at the earliest.
"If the Traveston Crossing Dam does not receive approval from the Commonwealth government then south-east Queensland will be short of water supply over the next ten to 15 years."
She said alternatives to the dam would deliver more expensive water.
"We are very confident of the Traveston Crossing Dam being approved," Ms Bligh said.
See - Queenslanders to drink recycled water.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 5:11 PM
5 Comments:
And she and Labor wonder why they have become so unpopular - can we wait for the election?
5:42 PM, October 21, 2008
WIN News:
Final Pipeline
21 October 2008
The final piece of the puzzle is in place.
Premier Anna Bligh this afternoon presided over the the laying of the final pipe at Gibson Island linking together the Southeast Queensland Water Grid.
The State Government says the water grid will produce 140 million litres of water each day, providing for more than eight hundred thousand customers.
Two recycling plants at Luggage Point and Gibson Island are scheduled to be completed by the end of the month.
Recent rains have provided a buffer for the scheme, allowing the Government to schedule quality testing before the system comes online in late February or early March.
7:22 PM, October 21, 2008
Quality testing- they have to be kidding.
In the Toowoomba scheme they were going to test for 3-5 YEARS and this lot are going to run it for a few months and she will be jake.
9:50 PM, October 21, 2008
The pipe line story we were all waiting for was to hear about the pipe line to run from Wivenhoe Dam to Toowoomba's dam.
Who is to pay for that one?
It is not going to be built and you can bet on it.
Too many "OTHER" options and they know it unless- they are going to run water down hill to Brisbane.
9:55 PM, October 21, 2008
WIN News:
Pipeline Pressure
20 October 2008
The State Opposition has called on the government to come clean on its demands to fund construction of the pipeline from Wivenhoe Dam to Toowoomba's water supply.
Council are negotiating to try and avoid ratepayers picking up the bill, in what's looming as a major hit on household budgets.
10:32 PM, October 21, 2008
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