Recycled water - what's the fuss?
Queensland - 1/02/2007
Every time it rains, water runs across the land and into creeks, picking up anything left behind by cows, horses, kangaroos, koalas, birds and every other kind of animal. It runs into major waterways and into the dams where thousands of fish swim around and do their business.
The water gets treated, has a bunch of chemicals added to it and is pumped into households where people are quite happy to drink it straight out of the tap.
To counter the effects of the drought, it has been proposed to catch the water after we’ve finished with it, put it through a filtration system that far surpasses the initial treatment and pump the purified water back up to the dams where it would be added to the dirty run-off water ready to go through the whole process again.
So what’s the fuss about recycled water? It’s cleaner than the water that’s already in the dams. I think if people stopped for a minute and took time to understand exactly what is happening, they’d soon realise that they’re worried over nothing.
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