Recycled water v. desalination debate resurfaces ...

13 November 2009

Taxpayers must fork out more than $3 billion because the State Government refuses to pump recycled water into southeast Queensland dams.

Premier Anna Bligh's decision to replace the failed Traveston Crossing Dam project with energy-hungry desalination plants – while leaving the $2.4 billion recycled water pipeline network largely idle – will add to the state's budget woes.

Analysis by The Courier-Mail has found the decision by Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to scrap the Traveston dam will leave a 200-megalitre-a-day gap in the Government's water supply plans from 2012.
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See - Courier Mail - Anna Bligh's $3bn water blowout after Traveston decision.