Radio 4BC questions the honesty of the Bligh government over recycled water ...

Excerpt from 4BC.com.au:

Water is important

Posted by: Michael Smith

23 October 2008

Water is important and people feel strongly about it.

Yesterday Anna Bligh confirmed that Queenslanders will be drinking recycled sewerage from next March - "purified poo" as some put it.

I was surprised to hear that. My recollection of the government's commentary is that recycled sewerage would only be used in industrial applications like power stations. Peter Beattie said putting recycled sewerage (sic) in the drinking water supply would only happen in an "Armageddon" scenario.

During the show yesterday your calls confirmed that impression. So I was amazed when we received a call from Robert Hoge from the Deputy Premier's office - he told us that the Labor government went to the last election and was voted in with recycled water clearly on the agenda. He said people had voted for it.

We are being conned. The Labor Party did not go to the election with recycled drinking water on the agenda. Peter Beattie was emphatic before the last election. On Friday 2 June 2006 the Labor government released a statement which said "Premier Peter Beattie and the Minister for Water, Henry Palaszczuk said today that it was not government policy to place recycled water into dams across Queensland."

The current Premier and her staff must think we came down in the last shower.

I'm not debating the rights and wrongs of recycled water - just the honesty of the government.
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See - 4BC - Water is important.