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THE RACE TO DRINK WASTE

As their dam levels drop, two parched inland cities are competing to be the
first in Australia to recycle sewage into drinking water, writes Selina
Mitchell

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March 02, 2006
FORMER Toowoomba mayor and erstwhile National Party politician Clive
Berghofer is concerned Queensland's largest inland town will become known as
"shit city".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18315187%255E30417,00.html


Drought towns turn to effluent
Selina Mitchell
March 02, 2006
AUSTRALIANS could be drinking recycled effluent within three years.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18319167%255E30417,00.html

John Howard is on the verge of agreeing to the partial funding for a $70
million Toowoomba project to recycle wastewater in an effort to solve the
Queensland city's dire water shortage.

If the controversial project received the go-ahead, construction could be
completed in 18months, Toowoomba Mayor Di Thorley said. The town has been on
water restrictions for more than a decade.

A combination of recycling and demand management was the only solution, Ms
Thorley said.

Toowoomba is seeking $24million in federal funding through the $1.6 billion
Water Smart Australia program, which is administered by the National Water
Commission.

The commission has given the Prime Minister its recommendation on the
funding decision.

Chairman and CEO Ken Matthews told The Australian the country should be "at
the cutting edge of delivering economic, safe and healthy recycled water".

The commission has also received a proposal for a similar recycling scheme
for the parched NSW southern highlands city of Goulburn.

Goulburn's council is about to embark on a public education program critical
to it receiving public and financial support for its sewage recycling plans.

Goulburn-Mulwaree Mayor Paul Stephenson said the commission was supportive
of his call for $11 million in funding.

"We hope to have the system up and running in four years."

Both town systems would use reverse osmosis to treat the wastewater, the
same technology that is used to desalinate water.

The National Water Commission, the CSIRO, and parliamentary secretary with
special responsibility for water Malcolm Turnbull believe it is safe to
drinkproperly treated sewage. However, they also agree that anysuccessful
recycling system needs to be backed by the local community.

And in Toowoomba the community is divided on the issue.

Some of the locals, who are desperate for a solution to their water woes,
are not quite ready to accept recycling.

But others appear perfectly happy to drink recycled wastewater, as is
already done in other countries across the globe such as Japan, the US,
Britain and Singapore. Residents for and against the plant are generating
their own petitions.

Industry, Tourism and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane, who is Toowoomba's
local member, says the proposal has divided the community and could taint
the city's tourism image.

"People are not comfortable with this," Mr Macfarlane said.

"I would like to see other options considered, and a regional approach to
the issue."

Mr Turnbull said he was comfortable drinking recycled water.

"The key point about safety is that reverse osmosis will remove any
molecules larger than the water molecule (including salts)," he said.

"It follows therefore that the pathogens, drugs etc of which concern is had
will be removed by reverse osmosis." Western Australia is looking at options
for treating sewage for drinking.


Brought to you,with added comments below courtesy of :
-- 
Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer
Founder of the True Geology

Exploration Geologist & Offshore Consultant
Mobile +33 650 171 464
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~~  Ignorance Is The Cosmic Sin, The One Never Forgiven  ~~

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added comments
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Congratulations & Honour to Our Celtic God for implementing there again on
such debased  nation of australia,  guilty indeed of a most heinous & abject
Collective Crime a well deserved Collective Punishment !!!

It is a a  fact that discovering Mineral Deposits is a difficult exercice,
and none have achieved in the whole of australian Mining History the
exceptional feat of putting 3 mines on the map ! ... although in a whole
generation the consequence for Australia Mining Pioneer Turcaud has been a
continuous stream of abuses, insults, denials and vilifications on the part
of the Mining Criminals, their Political Criminal backers and that Criminal
Antipodean Rabble supporting it ! ...  without a "Single Cent nor a Single
Thanks " forwarded from the convict-strain Bastards's Colony ! That Divine
Retribution in application of theLaws of Eternal Justice comes as evident
solace to me  !

Besides the fact that many more & never found mines would have seen the
light, if I had not been kicked off the land ( at least 3 more of a total of
22 finds ), I am pleased to tell you that my true speciality is not Mining
but discovering pure water in any quantity and at any depth !!!! ... and
further still thanks to the True Geology knowing wherefrom that water
originally comes ( the official Vitellius apparent cycle of water is correct
... but does not give that answer  ) ... and finding water for me even in
the sea  is just fun !!! .... and I can even give the right counsel which
wiith little water will allow populations to drink the best water & allow
the best level of health in such !!!

... but as it is, Bastards, and as a result of your Collective Crimes,  your
only  ressources is to ask those Official Mining Heroes for solution, or
alternatively those Mining Criminals of Newmont, Newcrest, BHP & Boral or
finally  those Politics of the Federal or WA Parliaments ... and their
Universillities Experts of the ANU & Curtin ( ... and I could be now a
Professor of Geology (True) at the ANU , if you were not such a mob of
greedy degenerate criminal  morons indeed !!!  )

So as it is you are all going to drink shit .. but since you are already
drinking piss, you have already acquired some type of immunity I suppose !

With kind but sorry regards

Sir JP Turcaud

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