recycled water

ving (David) · #1 31-01-2007, 04:00 PM

Unless you have been living in a cave (that doesnt have er... electricity) you would have heard that the PM wants us all to drink fromthe golden springs.... (this is he wants us to drink recycled water). I personally have no problem with this as long as its safe, but there is a huge resistance to it for obvious reasons (cant figure out why? 2 words: golden springs).

to me, well the water supply isnt getting bigger and i think that no matter how much we try and save water the level aint going up. we have to do something and this is probably cheaper than desalination.

vote whether you would go teh recycled water or not and post your reasons why.

shredder · #2 31-01-2007, 04:08 PM

Hi Ving,

I certainly would drink the stuff, and probably have on my holidays already (ie many places all round the world recycle their water).

My only concern is can we trust the government (and public service) to get it right? How many times have we seen untreated effluent simply pumped out to sea because some system or other breaks, just imagine if that happened in the recycling plant and it was pumped to your door (so to speak). I can just see some poly going "Oops, gee we followed procedures, can't have been our fault! must have been the oppositions poor procedures..."

So I would vote for it just so long as we simply go and buy a system we know already works, reliably and well....

M

iceman (Mike) · #3 31-01-2007, 04:15 PM

Yep, i'd have no problems with it. They need to move into the 21st century and start planning for the future.

I heard that 85% of people said they would drink it, yet the government still won't move on it, and instead wants to focus on expensive, power hungry and environmentally damaging desalination.

leon · #4 31-01-2007, 04:15 PM

Absolutely, would drink it, it would probably be cleaner than the tap water we drink now.

Cheers Leon

merlin8r · #5 31-01-2007, 04:36 PM

Of course. All water is recycled anyway. We would just be speeding up the process. The Earth has the same amount of water on it as it did millions of years ago (maybe comets have dropped in a few more litres), it's just in different locations.
As has been mentioned, desalinisation is not the answer. It is very power hungry, and leaves a bad by product, salt. What do you do with that? Dump it back in the sea?

Sausageman (Mike Boggan) · #6 31-01-2007, 04:44 PM

Long long ago in a distant galaxy, I was in charge of maintenance for a sewage treatment plant. I have drank the water directly from the filter bed, you know, the ones with the rotating arms that sprinkles water onto the filter material.
It was as good as you get anywhere, no, actually it was better because there was no chlorine, fluoride or aluminium salts in it like there is in tap water. Our water was tested frequently for nasties, as it was returned to the Brisbane River.
I would welcome re-cycled water. We need it desperately.

Mike.

ving (David) · #7 31-01-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by merlin8r

, and leaves a bad by product, salt. What do you do with that? Dump it back in the sea?

put it on your fish and chips

I heard Qld were definitely going ahead dispite the fact the people of teh state voted against it and that we new south welsh men are to not get the privledge of voting because morris doesnt want anything to do with it.

toetoe (Peter) · #8 31-01-2007, 04:49 PM

Yes i would, it would not be an option if it wasn't safe to do so. This has been happening in other countries for a while now so why not i say. Lets do it.

Striker (Tony) · #9 31-01-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ving

I heard Qld were definitely going ahead dispite the fact the people of teh state voted against it

Not entirely correct David, Qld has never had a vote on this topic only the town of Toowoomba who voted NO.

We have a 5 stage reverse Osmosis unit that we use for our drinking water so I have no problem drinking recycled water.

Like what has been mentioned before all our water has been recycled in some way.

rogerg (Roger) · #10 31-01-2007, 05:21 PM

I believe Astronauts recycle most (if not all?) of their water while in space (ISS?) ... and they are up there for months and months. Surely it's tried and tested as a result? They aren't dead yet.

I'd have no problem with it for the sake of saving the environment. If there was an abundance of water I'd prefer to drink the "new fresh" stuff rather than the "recycled fresh" stuff.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #11 31-01-2007, 05:24 PM

I reckon that someone could give away small plastic bottles of this water at "driver reviver" stops and other public places to at least gauge reaction - see how it goes....

acropolite (Phil) · #12 31-01-2007, 05:32 PM

I have no problem with recycled water, but at the end of the day, our pollies need to address the causes of the problem, not find band aid solutions to the effects. They also need to put an end to the "growth economy" practices and policies that are currently pushed, as any high school student knows growth is exponential and can't be sustained indefinitely.

wavelandscott (Scott) · #13 31-01-2007, 05:47 PM

Recycled water is AOKAY with me...of course I'd drink it.

I suspect if done properly it would likely be higher quality than we get now...(at least no worse)

Cheers!

[1ponders] (Paul) · #14 31-01-2007, 05:48 PM

I don't see what the problem is.

If you ask our Kiwi cussie bro's they'll tell you were full of unrecycled sewage anyway

At least when it comes to the rugby

glenc (Glen) · #15 31-01-2007, 05:53 PM

If you don't like recycled water install a small tank on the cleanest part of your roof and drink from that.

mickoking · #16 31-01-2007, 06:08 PM

That is a very pleasing poll result. Recycled water, bring it on

Ziggy Stardust · #17 31-01-2007, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by glenc

If you don't like recycled water install a small tank on the cleanest part of your roof and drink from that.

yeah and drink water with siders, bird cr@p and the rest in it...

I have to live off rain catchment water on my small holding and at times my water has to be boiled to be safe or go through a filter and activated carbon.

Recycled water is not rocket science, just good clean technology. I'd pay to have recycled water piped to my place. ( I ran out for third time in five months this weekend and had to pay $150 for 10,000litres!!!! to be delivered

)

Even third world countries run successful and safe recycling plants.

My opion may get many aussies backs up, but it's time to stop thinking they too good for the real world and accept finite resources exist on this planet and this continent.
Drinking recycled water is saving the planet, saving Australia from a dry future.

Be a True Blue and proud Aussie and drink recycled water...just like they do on the ISS...

and will do on the moon soon too...

good enough for Niel Amstrong, then good enough for me...

Many of those claiming to be revolted by the thought of drinking recycled sewerage, do a lot worse when out on a binge drinking beer and other illegal cocktail, using banded substance, yet worry about water!!!

I'm glad and proud to be part of forum here that see the truth and future of the planet...

Just a quick thought, who watched the US program on bottled water last night???? where the majority of the water bottled was in fact just plain tap water and in some cases worse than tap water...how easily we fooled.

I'm not a labor supporter, but the Queensland Premier has my respect for doing the hard call and saving his state.

jmo

Tony

[1ponders] (Paul) · #18 31-01-2007, 06:18 PM

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Just a quick thought, who watched the US program on bottled water last night????

It was a shame it was on so late. Funny though, especially the water waiter.

Ziggy Stardust · #19 31-01-2007, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by [1ponders]

It was a shame it was on so late. Funny though, especially the water waiter.

yeah with his hose filling the water up...lol

got to love their "own brand" with bullsh!t as a listed ingredient...

I love those guys and their take on the real world.... so true at times and expossing the truth..

Tony

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #20 31-01-2007, 06:27 PM

I haven't got a problem with it at all.

As it was earlier mentioned, it's been recycled over and over again anyway.

If the drinking public were to see the condition of their water catchments,
a brown murky combination of mud, duck and fish excrement with the occasional dead turtle floating on top for flavour, ( this is Somerset Dam, sorry Brisbane ) , they'd be happy to have all that clean purified water poured in to dilute it.

As for those who won't drink it, well, I guess they could just filter it or boil it before drinking.