thebears

But dont we all do it anyway?????

I kinda like the idea as I drain the dragon that my contribution could end up in Mr Blair's tea, or Mr Bush's Coffee.

jon and alex

Not picking on you, its just that your post sums up the perception of most people!
Have to point out that ALL water is recycled and has been for millions of years. Every drop you use has been through an animal at some point!!
There's nothing wrong with recycled water. Recycling waste into drinking water via chemicals and UV etc is simply an accelerated replication of what nature does.
Don't kid yourselves - that glass of water you're enjoying has been poo at some point in its life!!!!

arkon

All true, infact they recon we have all at sometime drunk the piss of genghis khan. Its ALL recycled and frankly I'd rather drink stuff that has been manually recycled and tested than something drawn from a river or lake that has had god knows what dumped into it over the years.

cresta57

He does today but tomorrow the weak willed wanker may well have reverted to his stance of last week which was the "Armageddon option"
Some people are to stupid to be politicians others are so full of their own importance that they'll spend billions of dollars building waste of time dam that will do nothing to stop Brisbane running out of water before it's even built.
Pete and his puddles will be remembered around these parts long after he's paled into insignificance.

Buzzy--Bee

C A D S!!!

Excellent!!!

One imagines a town full of James Hewitt lookalikes!



Buzzy

Buzzy--Bee

another definition of expert is -

"ex" - meaning "used to be"

"pert" - meaning "an erect tit" !!!



Buzzy

Buzzy--Bee

Noooo!!!! Leave some for me!!!

Oh OK - I'll bring my own.



Buzzy

jad n rich

Referendum is now supposed to be 2008, bit hard to work out whats going on really, mornings news also said, NSW and Victoria have rejected recycled water, have no idea if that was the public or at a political level

Like you say so much fighting and mud slinging goes on its pretty hard to weed out the facts.

As for Toowoomba probably not the most forward thinking place to do a poll but then I may be biased, we have the most racist, bigoted aussies ever met next door, 2 nurses from toowoomba, never left the place till they moved here

moneypenny20

I don't quite understand why they have so many referendums anyway. The thinking in the UK seems to be you have voted in a polititian, you then rely on them doing what they can to your benefit (obviously this goes pear shaped quite often ) but why have pontificating politians if everytime a decision needs taking they go back to the people who, let's be honest, haven't got a clue as to the true impact of said decision. Human nature dictates that NIMBY will win every time

thribble

Except in the UK everyone complains that we don't get referendums, and that the politicians do what they want without any input...

There was an interesting article in the Weekend Australian magazine about this over the weekend (I have a scan but it's 6MB). Basically biased reporting - missing out facts and in one case blatantly getting it wrong - whilst pretending to be rational. NIMBYs will win every time if even the papers give in to that perception.

jayr

We should all get up to Wivenhoe now an piss into it before its too late if you ask me

ozzieeagle

I've just heard on the radio that we in Melbourne, are probably going on to stage 2 restrictions this summer. (stage 2 means only watering gardens 2 hours in the evening and mornings rather than the current stage3 situation of 3 hours morning and night)

Over the years Ive seen the situation slip, from a happy anything goes, where in the early 80's people had their sprinklers on all day in the summer, to hose pipe bans in recent years.

Now water being the valuable commodity that it is. It seems to me that one thing this country is getting wrong time and time and time again, is insisting on water conservation instead of going after the damn stuff.

I'm told there is abundant quantities available in the tropical regions of this country. Surely harvesting water in as large quantities as possible would not only benefit the Cities of this country, but open up great tracts of land.

If there isn't enough water here, I've heard tales that it's possible to pipeline it in from the some of the highest catchments in the world up in New Guinea.... they do it with oil, surely Water to Australia is that important.

Rant over.... I'm one person thats hates water conservation, loves green and wants to soak Australia.

How about getting on with it.


I'm grey watering with a vengance this year.... bet the same thing happens again, I get a note from the waterboard asking how I'm watering in the daytime.... Courtesy of a complaint by a neighbour in the flats nearby.... Blimey anyone would think it's dead unusual to use greywater .... Stupid mass water conservation mentality.

jayr

If you are prepared to pay US$70 a barrel you can have anything you like piped from PNG.

ozzieeagle

I would definitely pay 3 times my water bill at present to set up the infrastructure I wouldn't want to sustain that indefnitely. If the cost where spread across the whole country, as it would benefit the whole country if the scale where big enough, the short term pain would be followed by long term gain.

There could be enough water falling on the Australian mainland up north, if the powers that be can figure a way of catching a sizeable proportion, instead of letting it flow down rivers back to the sea.

The opposite situation is the whole of the South east of the country turning brown every summer.

I hate the Native plant look, anyone going up the Hume past the new treeless bland estates knows whats coming.

PeteY

Do you realise what you are saying?

Australia has already killed the Murray, and many other waterways, through mass extraction from primary sources. The solution to Australias water problem is NOT to be found in looking for more places for direct extraction, but in more efficient ways to manage the current catchments. One of the best methods for this is recycling.

Ecosystems in tropical environments are EVEN more sensitive to the amount of water passing through (and being removed) from the system, than mediterranian and temperate areas.

As someone mentioned further up in this thread. Chemical recycling is simply the water cycle, sped up.