The 4350water Blog highlights some of the issues relating to proposals for potable reuse in Toowoomba and South East Qld. 4350water blog looks at related political issues as well.
Excerpt from ABC News:
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 12:38 PM
For many years, the 4350water blog has informed readers of plans by the Toowoomba City Council (now Toowoomba Regional Council) and the Qld government to introduce recycled water for drinking in Toowoomba. It has also looked at the issue from a State and Federal perspective and dealt with related State and Federal political issues. There continues to be a need for the Toowoomba Regional Council to be completely transparent in its dealings with the ratepayers and residents of Toowoomba. There also continues to be a need for open debate on the benefits and risks of potable reuse and long-term studies on the effects on humans of drinking recycled water. Coal seam gas water is emerging as a possible alternate water source for some uses for the region. The 4350water blog is a collective effort and thanks go to its many contributors.
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1 Comments:
Please stop wasting taxpayers money - and flogging a dead horse.
What education could convince people to drink recycled WASTE water - while:
- There is plenty of RAIN water in the dam
- The cost of buying Recycled WASTE water is said to be 4 times the price of existing water.
- There appears to be no publicly available DATA on test results from the SEQ recycled water plants.
- There is no broad and balanced agreement among scientists in Australia, regarding the long term safety of drinking recycled WASTE water.
I believe Education standards in QLD need to fall a lot lower - in other words LESS education is needed - before SEQ residents will agree to be a "test case" on the effects of drinking high volumes of Recycled Waste Water continuously over their lifetimes.
There is no rush or need to drink high levels of WASTE water - and the majority of people in SEQ know it.
There are MANY other options available to governments - SEQ is on the coast - people see the rain falling - people live by the sea - the majority of people wont drink recycled WASTE water (using new technology (?) to source drinking water safely (?) from SEWAGE, HOSPITAL and INDUSTRIAL WASTE - Not now - Not EVER
The only risk I see, in not adding recycled WASTE water to our dams is - someone's profit might be lower than expected next year?
1:50 PM, November 26, 2008
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