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Water is important

Posted by: Michael Smith | 23 October, 2008 - 11:32 AM
waters

Water is important and people feel strongly about it.

Yesterday Anna Bligh confirmed that Queenslanders will be drinking recycled sewerage from next March - "purified poo" as some put it.

I was surprised to hear that. My recollection of the government's commentary is that recycled sewerage would only be used in industrial applications like power stations. Peter Beattie said putting recycled sewerage in the drinking water supply would only happen in an "Armageddon" scenario.

During the show yesterday your calls confirmed that impression. So I was amazed when we received a call from Robert Hoge from the Deputy Premier's office - he told us that the Labor government went to the last election and was voted in with recycled water clearly on the agenda. He said people had voted for it.

We are being conned. The Labor Party did not go to the election with recycled drinking water on the agenda. Peter Beattie was emphatic before the last election. On Friday 2 June 2006 the Labor government released a statement which said "Premier Peter Beattie and the Minister for Water, Henry Palaszczuk said today that it was not government policy to place recycled water into dams across Queensland." - link

The current Premier and her staff must think we came down in the last shower.

I'm not debating the rights and wrongs of recycled water - just the honesty of the government.

Anna Bligh also tried it on in the last couple of days over the Traveston Crossing Dam. The dam is subject to the approval of the Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett - the state government has to make a submission to him asking for his approval. Yesterday the Premier said the dam was subject to federal approval and "I can't dictate the timing of the Federal Government's decision making." I spoke to Peter Garrett yesterday and he told me that the state government has not yet made any application for him to consider.

So Anna, you can exercise some influence on him - putting the application in would be a good start. It seems very poor form if the state government is buying back land and laying pipes before the project is approved.

Like I said - water is important. We need to get this right. Over to you!

Blog comments Your Say

  • Yes Phil.. And I am waiting for Bob Katter and those other (strangely silent now) independents, who have a probably never to be repeated opportunity, to FIX the water problems of the whole country.
    We all know that it's there, and it's just a matter of putting the water where it's needed and Katter knows exactly how to do that. I think I could organise it... that's how easy it is.
    The Labour Party galahs have no compunction in WASTING $43,000,000,000 dollars of taxpayers funds, (BORROWED AGAINST FUTURE TAX BURDENS) to put a broadband system in which will be obsolete before it's finished, but which might give them "big brother" control over the use of the internet.

    WHY THE HELL ARE THEY ALL SO BLOODY QUIET ABOUT IT?

    Have those blow-hard Independents folded?

    What a disgusting load of crap we have in government.

    Let's have another bloody desalination plant, or ten. Shitodear.

    Wobblyone Friday 5 November, 2010 - 8:18 AM
  • I am still waiting for one of these lying Labour Party Politicians, preferably Anna Bliargh, the Minister for Natural Resources or perhaps one of these beaurecratic pieces of garbage, one of the chosen few who holds a Labour Party Ticket to tell me if we are drinking recycled crap sewerage; whilst on the subject they might explain why the owners of the water, thats you me and the people of Queensland are still being threatened with legal action if we hose down our houses or pathes, or even wash our cars. Water from the dams of our State, our property being flushed down the rivers and creeks, wasted, to flow into the bays, yet we still have water restrictions. Won't happen though folks, that liar Bliargh, has to keep them at full capacity in preparation for the sell off of another of our assets AND CHARGE US LIKE WOUNDED BULLS for taking our property. And you apathetic bunch of whimps will sit back and let it happen. I honestly don't know where our forbears got their guts from and whom they passed it on to. Because it sure wasn't you mob out there. Now lets have a look at our Political Leaders of late; Goss - needed a liar like Rudd to make decisions for him, and I quote " you look after the State I'll take care of the Politics"; Beattie - our first of the big liar/lairs", passed his knowledge onto, one who he called "Bligh the Builder" and one who surpassed him in the art of lying; and she has nominated her successor as Andrew Frazer -enough said!!!!!Come on Queensland, surely its time to rid this State of these leeches and parasites.

    Phil of Springwood Thursday 4 November, 2010 - 12:43 PM
  • Never in the history of Queensland Politics have so few, done so much (with total contempt) for the people of this State who are so deserving of much better from an elected Government; and for so long as we have a weak opposition being led by a mealy mouthed whimp, Queensland(ers) will continue to wallow in the mud created by this thoroughly contemptible, dishonest, corrupt Government under the leadership of an equally incompetent Politician and proven liar. Many is the time that I have written to the LNP Power Brokers and advised them he is not the man for the job and their replys are what one would expect. "He needs a bit of time" or words to that effect. The Labour Party Line up - Bligh the Liar and leader of the Liars Party; Lucas the Incompetent; Frazer - a sleazy little man who comes across of just that an he in charge of our Government Coffers; Robinson - a stuttering, dribbling fool etc. etc. etc. and on the other side - Langbroek a camera shy, mealy mouthed failure; who replaced Lawrence Springborg
    a seasoned Politician - their first mistake; and then there was ? ? ? ?, sorry folks, but there is only one person deserving of a mention within the Shadow Cabinet - and thats Fiona Simpson, a woman who comes across as being one with ability and bucket loads of integrity, alas she is oblviously not a member of the Boys Club in the Organization. A decent leader with a competent Shadow Cabinet of a decent Opposition should be able to
    make "Mince Meat" of this appallingly incompetent, corrupt, nepotic and wastril Government led by Anna Bliargh - Remember Electricity; After the Railway Sell off - then she will roll out water. Mark my words; And the band played Walzing Matilda!!!!!

    Phil of Springwood Monday 1 November, 2010 - 7:42 AM
  • Combine ten years of total
    inactivity, two years of blind panic and the millions
    wasted in the Traveston dam
    debacle and you have the
    background to the Great
    Water Robbery.Thr result is
    that we are paying for a
    water network, most of which
    dosnt work, is not being used
    or was never properly planned.Then Anna Bligh takes
    the water from councils by
    force and then puts it into
    a beaucratic, money wasting
    maze that few people can
    understand. But then what else can you expect from this
    bunch of thieves and conartists?

    peter hansen Sunday 31 October, 2010 - 9:26 AM
  • "Water is important and people feel strongly about it." its true

    alphawater Friday 29 October, 2010 - 5:35 PM
  • Thanks 4BC for giving residents of SEQ a voice against the lunacy of drinking recycled sewage water. Why is the government in such a rush to add recycled sewage water to our drinking water supplies? The facts as I see them are 1) I did vote Labor at the last election (sorry all) BUT i did NOT vote FOR drinking recycled sewage water 2) Recycled Sewage Water is NOT put directly into drinking water supplies around the world, nor are there long term studies showing the QLD "toilet to tap" method is 100% safe, with "no associated risks" 2) SEQ dams at 40% are nowhere near empty or in an armageddon situation 4) Once the taps are turned "on" will the flow of recycled sewage water to our dams ever be turned "off" - and if not why not? WHY would the government put public health at risk with recycled sewage water, when there have been NO long term studies done here "on the ground" in QLD AUST with this water. Why would the government put public health at risk when there is NO urgent need to do so? I will be voting NO to recycled sewage water in the next election by voting FOR Lawrence Springborg, who today in an article titled - "Recycled sewage 'will have bugs', Queensland Government warned" - in The Australian Online Newspaper "signalled that the Liberal National Party would scrap the project if it won next year's election." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24568495-5006786,00.html

    No to recycled sewage water Thursday 22 January, 2009 - 10:41 AM

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