Civil War?

Apologies widdershins, I originally intended to end after 2 sentences.

Travelling overseas to look at what other countries do is called a junket. Tell them to set up a webcamera if they need to see it personally.

They are predicting that rain will start happening again though – if that does occur, will they persist with the recycled water, just cos they spent the money setting it up, or will they just give it up again.

Jon says they are travelling OS looking at what other countries do.

The water expert has pointed out that they have to recycle water, as it has already been used elsewhere. Is there anywhere else on earth that takes a pristine water source and adds recycled water to it?

The idea behind having another dam is that when we get rain again it fills up, to get us thru the dry spells. Pumping water from our small full dam to the bigger emptier one is one of ACTEW/act govt’s smarter ideas. They have had plans for another dam in readiness for ages, just keep putting back the timetable for actually doing it.

If Simon Corbell thinks recycled water is a bad idea then it must be a really bad idea!

And has Jon really removed all possibility of community consultation on this (as the CT implies)?

Thanks for the info – I hadn’t thought of it that way before.

You’re right, it has nothing to do with this thread at all. But I think the attacking comments are unnecessary.

Work it out yourself dunderhead.

Lets just say it involved the recycled water professionals drinking poo flavoured water.

Ahh what the hell, I’ve gone this far already.

Search back a couple of months and you’ll see a comment from me saying how long it would be before the first accident happened involving the leaking of effluent into the human consumption stream. I don’t even think that month ticked over before the first incident occured.

Lets stop presuming any level of competence here that our forefathers might have busted their asses to ensure that nobody ever came in contact with the matter, these days its left to some contractor who doesn’t care one way or another what happens as soon as his cheque clears for the cheapest and nastiest job possible.

Google Melbourne Water Eastern Treatment Plant for confirmation.

It’s these same ‘Experts’ who are meant to be protecting us from being exposed to fecal matter that can’t even safely deliver it to their own offices yet. Do I trust them to provide it to me ? – no.

So regardless of your calculations, I’d seriously reconsider your ‘minute chance’ to be more of a ‘regularly occuring nature’ given the current nature of our economy.

The effect, who knows. What it’s got to do with this thread ? – you tell me.

That’s 5 words.

Do tell. What happened in Melbourne?

I should say that I’d prefer not to have recycled water, in an ideal world, but if there’s no rain, there’s not a lot of options left.

No, I don’t know how to use links – sorry if it caused problems.

Widdershins, I have one word to say to you: Melbourne Water Eastern Treatment Plant.

Read this, from ACTEW:
[you’d think such a genius would know how to use a link]

ACTEW wants to increase the size of the current dam significantly in order to hold the recycled water – it’s not a ‘small amount’ of extra water, it’s mountains of the stuff.

There is no point building a new dam without recycled water to fill it. There IS NO RAIN to fill it.

‘Experts’ coming out against is one guy, so far, and his comments need to be considered thusly: yes, there is a very very small risk of contamination (some would say basically NO risk, however, given how good water purification is when recycling). There is, however, an imminent, obvious and quite SERIOUS risk of having no water at all. Balance the two – no water at all? or the minute chance of contamination (which they would fix quick smart, if it occured).

“outstanding” in front of the firing squad…

I wouldn’t think seven-storey-simon would go close to having the numbers either, but I guess it’s possible he’s starting to believe that the current disgust at the government might make his colleagues a little less confident in their current leader heading into the next election.

Who is the next Labor leader when the Comrade decides to retire/avoid the judgement of the people? Katy Gallagher? Simon Corbell? Enough to make you want to vote Liberal.

“Outstanding” VP? Depends what he is being compared with.

The ACT deserves much better; someone with some good economic credentials preferably and they seem to be pretty short on the ground.