“I think in the end, because of the drought, all of Australia are going to end up drinking recycled, purified water,”
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said falling dam levels have left his government with no choice but to introduce recycled water next year
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All water is purified sewerage or contains some part of it. Bizarre statement given they have just had a flood that reached the Brisbane CBD.
A lot of people do not even take time to think about such things. They believe whatever others claiming to be experts tell them! Even rain water is not pure. Pure water is bad for your health! We get a lot of minerals and needed bacteria from out drinking water. Uh oh I said the bad thing “Bacteria”. Without it we would not be able to digest our food properly!
That was from 2007, during the permanent drought.
While living in South Australia for several years I was introduced to “recycled” water. One of the golf courses used water from a nearby sewage plant to keep the fairways watered. If your ball rolled into a water hazard and you went to retrieve it, you were met with warning signs. I had a lot of crappy shots on that golf course.
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Of course most “treated” water returns to the hydrological cycle and into someones drinking water down stream somewhere!
A desal plant was built in Queensland because of the “permanent drought”
It’s been mothballed.
The state of Victoria is currently constructing a desal plant that was originally costed at 3 Billion AU dollars, costs have risen to over 5.8 billion dollars. The end of the contract might see it costing 7 billion dollars. Then there is a contract that has been struck to operate the plant for the next 25 years. The overall cost of the plant will be over 25 billion dollars – includes something like 600 million dollars a year to run it.
Victoria was in the middle of one of it’s 11 year droughts when the desal contract was let. The drought has broken and there will be no use at all for the water from this desal plant.
The madness is that the former state government (Labor) signed unbreakable contracts.
The other maddening thing is that the state of Victoria has dams that hold 1.7 gigaliters of water available for the capital city (Melbourne) domestic (and manufacturing) use.
There are three other dams in the vicinity that hold 10 gigalitres of water purely used for irrigation. 75% of that water is wasted by open channel distribution canals.
11 to 14 year droughts are a regular occurrence in Australia.
I am partial to “organic water”. 😉
Michael is right. All water is just a fish’s toilet.
Per capita, Australia has probably the highest amount of rainfall in the developed world. The problem is to capture and store it, as it falls intermittently over a very large area. Fortunately there’s a simple, relatively inexpensive solution – dams in large valleys in the hills and mountains. Under Green pressure, the Oz government has eschewed the obvious solution, and has embarked on an expensive programme of desalination plant building (The plants use a lot of electricity). Par for the course in a country where the government plans to spend billions buying a large coal-burning power station in order to close it down. Seems that their strategy is to work out what’s the cheapest and simplest option, and to do the opposite, in common with the coalition loons here in the UK. I weep for their country, and for mine.