SEQ recycled water - Bligh government rocked by QWC admission on industrial waste ...

Premier Anna Bligh has long defended the safety of recycled water, which will go through a seven-step purification process before it is added to Wivenhoe Dam.

However the Government last week came under fire from some water experts, who said the purification process would not kill bugs that caused potentially fatal infections.

Australian National University emeritus professor Patrick Troy and microbiologist Peter Collignon were among those who expressed concerns that up to 20 per cent of the southeast's drinking water would come from recycled water from sewerage systems.

The pro-recycled water campaign was also rocked by the Queensland Water Commission's admission that industrial waste would account for at least 12 per cent of the waste water to be treated for drinking.

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