Recycled water - Do we want to drink recycled effluent ??
Published 1 year, 10 months ago in My life.Hey Team Victoria… I want to take a straw poll as to what really is the mood of our state, with regards to us all drinking recycled effluent.
I understand there are many people doing it already, I understand that we are very short of water and have to plan for our childrens children, but would you really like to have it as your dinking water or would you prefer to pay extra and have a desalination plant for our drinking water and the recycled effluent made available to industry for their use with the exception of food & drinking products??
We have to be vigilant otherwise our governments just presume we will not stop them…
Should we be pressuring our governments to be doing more for our enviroments to assist it to do its job? http://www.crcsalinity.com.au/newsletter/SeaNews/dpap0102.htm
A small South Australia Desalination Plant exists already http://www.sawater.com.au/SAWater/Education/OurWaterSystems/Desalination.htm
Recycled water for Sydney yards, kitchens http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21245182-421,00.html
Reuse of effluent water – benefits and http://www.cropscience.org.au/icsc2004/symposia/1/5/2086_toze.htm
Bracks backs away from effluent plan http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bracks-backs-away-from-effluent-plan/2007/01/29/1169919245340.html
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Again, depending on the story angle, one person’s recycle water is another person’s recycle effluent! Hey at Gunnamatta Beach they surf in it! http://www.cleanocean.org/index_general.asp?menuid=040.030
I don’t like the idea, we must be suspicious of the government, they act only in their interest not the wider public this is evident in that quit Victoria does NOT recommend a quit programme that really works, but instead recommends drugs that they profit from, however when the department of infrastructure recently made a no smoking policy they paid for the entire staff to attend the programme that quit Victoria denounces, at $410 per person. I say if they want us to drink effluent lets test it on the families of M.P.s for a year or so to see if there is any side affects.
You do already ! Rural people with rainwater tanks already drink diluted possum piss and birdshit. Yeah, a fine mesh filter keeps the bits out but what about whats already dissolved. Melbourne’s water supply is exactly the same. You’re not allowed anywhere near the major reservoirs, you might contaminate the water. That’s just so they can get away with minimal purification. Dead ‘roos in the water thats OK, its ‘natural’ .
Lets vote for proper water re-cycling plants where the water will be heaps cleaner than the current muck.
Can you stop calling it effluent! We have to drink that s##t!
I think a better question than “do we want to drink it?” is “would awe know if we were drinking it?”
And maybe if we were to examine the crap that we put into our bodies voluntarily, recycled water doesn’t look that bad!
This controversy over recycled water has me baffled. There is only a finite amount of water on this planet. The water we drink today is the same water that passed through the bodies of Jesus, Mahatma Ghandi, Cleopatra, Louis XVl, Hitler and every other person, animal, plant and microbe you could name back to the dawn of time. There is no such thing as non-recycled water. I think you have just fallen victim to media hype.
If it really offends you that much - just consider it a brush with fame!
Yup,
Dear Mr Bracks, A challange for you. Can you gets us more water instead of procrastinating and faffing around with all your BS and “studies”???
Can you outline a plan for a sustainable Victoria for the next 30 years ??, I bet not…
We are paying you and quite frankly If you cannot perform, we will just sack you at the next election but you won’t care as you will get your fat super cheque then.
Stop the “studies” and we know what they are dont we (jobs for the boys).
JUST DO IT FOOL, stop screwing with us and our future generations.
COCO!
I have visited many cities across the world and drank tap water in most of them , many of which use recycled “BLACK” water .
you would NOT be able to tell the difference…. seriously.
Theark1, you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
yes desalinisation is a good idea too , not enough work has been put into all of this untillnow , crisis point.
hopefully this is the “crisis we had to have”.
One last thought on this. All the stories I’ve ever heard about people lasting months at sea adrift in an open boat have one thing in common. The all owe their survival to eating raw fish and drinking…….. Yep, you guessed it, re-cycled water !!!
As has been said before we already drink water that has been contaminated by one species or another. We do have to remember that politicians only have sort vision - they only see from one election to another and they never want to upset the puplic popular groups come election time. While they were plotting and planning population growth they have been ignoring the need to provide expanding cities with water, and of course we never have droughts. The polies are aupposed to take charge and make the plans that provides australians with sufficient infrastructure to survive not waste their time trying to protray themselves as the best option come election day. So in the meantime if we have to supplement our water reserves with recycled water then so be it.
We should be doing it. Drinking recycled effluent makes a lot more sense than using drinking water to flush a million dunnies.
As to Golden1’s objection to calling it recycled effluent, would you prefer soylent green? I have images of Charlton Heston running the streets of Melbourne with cries of “s##t! You’re drinking s##t!'’
Call a spade a spade.
soylent brown and yellow, full of brown and yellow goodness
. I could go on TV and advertise it, add a catchy jingle and everyone will think it’s th next chocolate.
I have no problem drinking recycled water (as someone else has mentioned, we have been since we were born
), beats the alternative of drinking nothing and shrivelling up into dust.
Reminds me of the episode of Futurama where everyone loved drinking Slurm until they found out that it came from a big slugs bottom.
I guess I really do not have a problem myself with the concept of using recyled water, its just I really dont’ trust governments or business to keep it always to AAA grade, for instance what about the mix up at the water company in Melb Sth Eastern Suburbs where all those people were sick because they connected the wrong pipes and the recyling in its current grade was directed to drinking water for those now sick employees.. .. Until they get my trust.. I’d be happy to use it for everything but drinking… upon proof of excellence.. I would then reconsider drinking it…. I rarely drink it from the tap now days anyway!!!