I've installed a tank for rain water..for when it rains, but I would still welcome recycled water in the future to keep my garden alive and for every other function. If people don't choose to drink it they can buy water for drinking or use tank water.

Still want authorities to study the example set by C.Y. O'Connor in the Perth to Kalgoorlie
pipeline that made it possible to open that part of the country and still provides a lifeline to agriculture as well as the renowned mining industry. Tentative plan is being introduced to the Queensland Parliament at the present sitting.

A “yes” vote could have impacted on the propsed Traveston Dam built on tears. We must now leave no stone unturned to express the truth about recycled water. Firstly make a commitment never again to allow anyone in your presence to call water ,“ recycled sewage.” Please make a commitment to get the facts and ‘talk’ the facts at every opportunity. The Save the Mary Valley website is a great source of information as is also the MRCCC.
The water in the Toowoomba project is 6 star quality and is suitable both for dialysis and pharmaceutical uses.
· The process of multi barrier treatment removes acute and chronic risks.
· The health of drinking recycled water is significantly lower than that of drinking normal potable water.
· Planned indirect potable uses have occurred for may years with no know health risks.
· Nature constantly recycles. Ever thought about where our rain clouds have hailed from? or what caused chemicla rain in Europe? or how far clouds can travel?
· We all live ‘downstream’. Communities all over the world discharged treated and untreated waste water into rivers and streams, and many will use for a drinking supply.
· For me the very best option is to initiate a recycling process that delivers SAFE, PURE water into every home.
· If you still can’t trust that, then TANKS are the best possible option.
· For some areas augmentation of water supply through recycling is the only option other than a long “wet season”.

South Australia has an alternative where recycled water is used for the garden, washing the car etc. I find it interesting that the states we call backwards is where the forward thinking comes from.

it would be well for people to remember that home water tanks are not the answer to all of our water supply problems. indeed, if given the option between drinking city tank water(that is tanks situated in large urban areas) and recycled sewerage i would take the recycled any day. rain water that falls onto ones roof and then into a backyard tank would be grossly contaminated. petrochemical exhaust from vehicle emmissions is particulate as well as gaseous. this particulate residue settles onto roofs in large quantities. joining this are the rotting remains of animals and vegetable matter. urban tank water would not be fit for long term human consumption. (this is a personal and as yet untested hypothesis.)

I am still strongly in favor of redycling and think the controls are now more important than the ifs. Must never be privatised where profit becomes more important than quality control,and should be kept at arms length from local government.

The Toowoomba vote was disappointing, one must ask what the agenda is for Toowoomba now, do they follow Goulburn, NSW having no water?
Having lived near a dam but without access, we used tank water, I have seen what goes into the water, decaying leaves, wildlife carcasses, you name it it will eventually wash into the dam then your home.
As to home watrer tanks, yes there mayy be chemicals washing into them but in a full tank they are traces only. When as above I lived on rainwater tanks, there were even occassions frogs etc got in and died, we only found out when the water smelt foul, I am alive today and have suffered mored through so called town water than i even did drinking rainwater or even creek water, pumped to top up the house tanks when they were low.

Look who we vote for. Basically it essence the whole debate is about ignorance and not about science. I do not know one person who is willing to admit they voted liberal in the federal election, I would assume that any referendum on recycled water would achieve the same result if the result is negative.

Basically if the scientists say recylcled 'sewage' and yes the stuff that comes out of our kidneys and bowles is safe to drink I and my whole extended family would willingly do so.

People, examine the science and not talk back radio, educate yourself. And yes most people are to ignorant to deserve as say for this very reason IGNORANCE.

p.s. I am not a scientist just someone who is informed, a 7th generation australian and drank tap water in London water and so has my family.l

We lived in Wagga Wagga for 33 years,11 towns including the Canberra put their treated effluent in the Murrumbidgee before we drew our water from the River.If you look at all the western River systems in NSW that enter the Murray and those on the Darling system including Toowoomba,count all the towns on those rivers plus the those towns on the Murray from its source,these towns all deliver their treated effluent to the river. You then have the hide to think the idea is new - You must live in Fantasy Land.

There is nothing more dangerous than overshooting local water catchment with population growth. Greens and others who so thoughtlessly endorse government profligacy with water show how little they really understand of the dynamics of population, consumption and technology.

If we continue to give in to high immigration and a bolstered birth rate then in 2050 there will be another 10 million people in Australia (and perhaps 9 billion in the world) and the cost of water, land, housing and other necessities of life will be beyond the capacity of the majority of Australians to assure their shelter and health and beyond the ability of any government to service. We will then be at the mercy of private and corporate forces and they do not have any interest beyond the dollar.

The 'Yuk' factor is but a straw man built to channel comment away from the real issues.

Not so long ago people in this country counted themselves the fortunate inheritors of rational democracy. Now population growth benefits those who own the technology and the resources in demand and the rest of us will pay more and more for this growth. Sooner or later it will cost lives as our access to water reduces in line with increasingly dense populations.

It's funny how people say it's done all over the world and then the only example they can give is Singapore (at 1%). Toowoomba was set to be 25-29% recycled sewage.

I laughed at the person who said 'Firstly make a commitment never again to allow anyone in your presence to call water ,“ recycled sewage.”'

The number one mistake. Toowoomba City Council and others tried to avoid calling the water what it is - and people were suspicious of such a need to hide the facts.

Back 30 or 40 years ago, the then Lord Mayor, Clem Jones borrowed the funds needed to complete the sewering of Brisbane, and we paid for it with an increase in rates.

Why not do the same with harvesting rainwater, the Council installs suitable rainwater tanks to every house, unit, and business throughout the greater Brisbane area, and we pay them off over decades by a small rate levy.

This way, clean rainwater is captured before it becomes runoff and is contaminated.
It's less expensive and less invasive than building dams, we know it rains in the populated areas, but not over the dam catchment.

The tanks and hardware are all Australian made, creating more jobs for Aussies.
Even if the water was only used for the toilet flush, washing machines and the hotwater system, the savings in consumption would add up.

I'm a 17 year old student attending St Josephs college in Toowoomba. When the recent water vote was turned down I was outraged at how selfish some people can be. To me, it seems as though it's the older generations that are the majority of 'No' voters. Fortunately for them, they won't have to grow up dealing with a problem that could have been solved, or at least improved using recycled water! I think it was a foolish idea in having a vote in Toowoomba. We have a history of being the 'Bible Belt'. Everyone is generally closed minded to change. History shows that there has Never been a Federal level vote in Toowoomba that has been a 'Yes' vote. Perhaps this vote should have been positioned in brisbane, where there is more open views to our water CRISIS.

This water crisis affects everyone in everyway. We need to stop worrying about drinking so-called 'poo-water' (Proven to be CLEANER then current drinking standards) and get over it.

Rain tanks are a great idea.. when it rains. So until then, we'll just keep drinking our dams dry, and perhaps when water totally runs out, people will finally understand the impact of voting 'No' for this postive change.

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