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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RECYCLING SEWAGE WATER INTO DRINKING WATER?

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created Mon Jan 29, 07

"Queensland to drink waste water

People in the Australian state of Queensland will soon have to start drinking water containing recycled sewage, the state premier has warned.
Premier Peter Beattie said he had scrapped a referendum on the issue, because there was no longer a choice.

He also warned other Australian states might eventually have to do the same because of mounting water shortages.

Water is already recycled in places like Singapore and the UK, but the idea is still unpopular in Australia.

But the country is currently suffering from a severe drought - the worst on record. Last week Prime Minister John Howard declared water security to be the biggest challenge currently facing Australia, and he announced a A$10bn ($7.7bn; £3.9bn) package to tackle the problem.

Mr Beattie said that falling water levels had left his state administration with no option but to introduce recycled water in south-eastern Queensland, starting from next year.

"We're not getting rain; we've got no choice," he told ABC radio.

"These are ugly decisions, but you either drink water or you die. There's no choice. It's liquid gold, it's a matter of life and death," he said.

Mr Howard supported Mr Beattie's comments, telling a Sydney radio station: "I've advocated recycling for a long time... I am very strongly in favour of recycling, and Mr Beattie is right."
But Mike Rann, the premier of South Australia, and Morris Iemma, the premier of New South Wales, rejected the Queensland plan - with Mr Rann ruling out using recycled sewage for anything but irrigation.

Malcolm Turnbull, the new environment and water resources minister, asked other states to be more open-minded on the issue.

"Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media.

"Put everything on the table, assess all the economic, environmental and financial costs and then make a decision."

(Source: BBC)

- What do you think of the idea of recycling sewage water for drinking?

I don't like the sound of it at all	34%
I don't really like the idea of it, but it is understandable for drought stricken places	31%
I am perfectly comfortable with that idea	24%
That's why I drink bottled water	10%

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COMMENTS:
nothing new. doesn't perrier already do that?

by Kev24 on Mon Jan 29, 07 10:02am [+]

Voted : I am perfectly comfortable with that idea
As long as the water is properly treated, it is more an aethetic problem than a health one.

However, without stringent regulation and operation, such an operation could pose a significant health risk, if anything went wrong (oh, say if Republicans gutted laws and allowed water plants to go on the cheap and/or with minimal regulation).

by Guest User from [135.92.84.150] on Mon Jan 29, 07 10:07am [+]

Voted : I don't really like the idea of it, but it is understandable for drought stricken places
As long as they do it right there is no problem. All water was wastewater at some point, the trick is cleaning it properly.

by herzog on Mon Jan 29, 07 10:28am [+]

just clean it properly

by aya on Mon Jan 29, 07 11:35am [+]

Pretty much all the water people drink is processed sewage or waste water. It isn't like we have a large number of streams and lakes that people can safely drink from without the water being processed. On space missions, urine and other waste is recycled back as drinking water. As long as all this is done safely, I don't see a problem.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Jan 29, 07 12:58pm [+]

^ we get all of our water from huge reservoirs upstate. i had no idea how big until i went up to westchester and saw one -- it was massive! there are epa police guarding them all and they are designated nyc drinking water supply.

where do you live that you're drinking raw sewage?

by Kev24 on Mon Jan 29, 07 2:40pm [+]

^ that didn't come out right. meaning i think in rural areas they usually have their own wells and in some metropolitan areas, if no reservoir, they do what you describe.

by Kev24 on Mon Jan 29, 07 2:59pm [+]

Voted : I don't like the sound of it at all
Kev, thanks *again* for reminding me why I don't drink that crap...

Mind you, I wouldn't at *all* be surprised to learn that someone somewhere's been doing this for *years*...

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Jan 29, 07 3:19pm [+]

Voted : I don't really like the idea of it, but it is understandable for drought stricken places
I think recycled water should only be used in a last restort situation because who in their right mind would drink recycled water if they had a choice not to?

God I hope we never have to invent recycled food.

by Corrupt on Mon Jan 29, 07 3:24pm [+]

Voted : I don't really like the idea of it, but it is understandable for drought stricken places
I had no idea i was drinking someone else's waste. When my friend said I was talking shit he may have been technically right.

by winston on Mon Jan 29, 07 3:25pm [+]

Voted : I am perfectly comfortable with that idea
They ALREADY do this in most U.S. cities...including Toledo, where I live...

by Psycho_Frighead on Sun Dec 09, 07 4:51pm [+]

every drop of water on this earth has been here since the beginning of time, so at one time, were all gonna drink filtered sewage water. as long as its filtered, we have nothing to worry about.

by Guest User from [71.8.5.233] on Sun Dec 30, 07 2:51pm [+]

Voted : I don't really like the idea of it, but it is understandable for drought stricken places
If you think of it, all the water we now have, has been here since the Earth was formed. No more,no less. It's been recycled for millions of year. Dinosaurs may have pissed that cup of water you're drinking.
There's just too many people on this Earth and we must control our birth rate.

by jj60sn on Wed May 21, 08 2:40pm [+]

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