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Democracy versus leadership in Poowoomba : Comments
By Jennifer Marohasy, published 31/7/2006The 'Big Question' is: why did John Howard insist Toowoomba vote on the issue of waste water recycling?
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Posted by rancitas, Monday, 31 July 2006 1:56:14 PM
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How much water does your toilet use? There is alternatives such as found at:- http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/technical/fs27.htm
“A joint initiative of the Australian Government and the design and construction industries.” Then there is all that showering & bathing and wipeing it on the towel! "Life Gets Teagous,Don't It!" Toowoomba can be dry one minute, then seven inches of rainfall in one afternoon, & not a drop saved in the water tank, because your council has refused your application to erect one, or the darn 'water composting system' required by the said council cost something like$15,000.00. on top of rest of new house costs. Posted by ELIDA, Monday, 31 July 2006 2:08:56 PM
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There is a silver lining to the NO vote, as regressive and small-minded as that vote may have been.
Recycling water from sewage works was never the best way to provide drinking water anyway, albeit one better than building more dams to sataisfy an ever-growing demand. The bald fact is there is adequate drinking water throughout Australia, even in the most drought prone areas. Our only problem is that we use good drinking water for such ridiculous purposes as flushing toilets and watering parks and gardens. The national drinking water dilemma will not be solved until all Australian households are retrofitted with a separate water feed lines. Whereby the recycled water line is used to flush toilets and wash clothes - our biggest domestic use - while the existing supply lines are reserved mainly for potable drinking water. The biggest scandal of all is that entire new suburbs are still being built with just a single feed line. Retrofitting is much more costly than putting in the necessary pipes at the time of construction. Change the building code now. No new house should be built anywhere in Australian suburbia without a recyled feed line being installed there and then. Posted by gecko, Monday, 31 July 2006 2:27:46 PM
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It may not have that much to do with Toowoomba, but I want to know, what is the difference in the treatment system between waste water, & sea water.
Both appear to require an Osmosis process, which should be similar in cost, & energy consumption. This being the case, why use waste water, where sea water is available. Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 31 July 2006 3:12:59 PM
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Good one Gecko.....
We should say no, as one day we will have to say yes, but for now lets live in th3e Best Country in the world and love our tap drinking water. Posted by Realist, Monday, 31 July 2006 3:15:58 PM
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Hasbeen, the reason it is not feasible to use sea water in Toowoomba is that the city is on top of the Great Dividing Range, well above sea level. It is expensive to pipe water across the country. I am from Toowoomba and voted yes. I believe most people voted no due to simple ignorance. (Similar to the interest rate ignorance of the last federal election). I heard numerous rumours spread by the no voters, such as: everyone in Toowoomba will get AIDS, men will lose their genitals because of the birth control pill, and everyone will get typhoid, etcetera. Unfortunately, most people are gullible idiots that are easily manipulated by people with vested interests (the financier of the no campaign is a property developer) and have no respect for science. It is now the responsibility of the no voters to devise another solution to the problem, because ultimately, having no water is much more detrimental to health than drinking recycled water.
P.S. London receives less rainfall per annum than Brisbane. Posted by Alex, Monday, 31 July 2006 4:08:49 PM
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This is National Party area. Past local "developers'" council and the local State Members are responsible for failing to build the infrastructure needed for a reliable water supply.
Toowoomba was once a vessel overflowing with potental, but alas the developers emptied the vessel into their own pockets and now we're high and dry.
If recycled water is "pee" than water from Cobby Creek is a dead cow, dead pigeon, dead ducks, dead snakes, dead lizards, cowsh*t, dead wallbies, wallaby sh*t, chemicals from farms upstream and greasy street runoff from towns upstream juice. Rotting corpse and animal sh*t juice.