“So rather than augmenting supply with water you cannot sell at a profit, you simply impose restrictions and constrain demand. Because you have no competition, nobody can undercut you.” - Malcolm Turnbull (Brisbane Institute-July 2006)
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Australian State Government's Insane Water Grid Experiment
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Updated on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 10:04AM by
stevem
A CORPORATE-government conglomerate in the so-called ‘Smart State’ of Queensland, Australia, plans subject some three million citizens to a dangerous experiment that will inject so-called purified sewage directly into a dam supplying household water. Against the wishes of residents and ignoring the most basic law of hygiene to separate human bodily waste from food and water, the government will conduct the experiment in league with multinational water corporations including Veolia Water and Haliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown Root (KBR). The bureaucrats says it’s safe because it’s been happening in western Sydney for 17 years, where waste water is dumped into the Richmond River and used again 17km downstream by another community. In London, where this also happens, there is an alarming rise in male infertility and breast development.
Keep the crap out of our drinking water
The greatest boosts to public health have had little to do with the latest wonder drug or examples of medical techno-wizardry. One of the real reasons you can expect to live so much longer than your grandparents is because of what happens when you turn on the kitchen tap. The development of safe water supplies has arguably been one of the major boons for health in the last 150 years. To put it crudely, keeping the cr-p out of our drinking water has added years to all of our lives.
Beware of the Recycled Water Industry on Water Safety and E. Coli in California
“One of the things some people say is that all water is recycled. This is true. The problem is, though, that it wasn’t going through a tertiary treatment plant, but Mother Nature’s system. The water we drink is filtered through the soil profile. “When you replace that with tertiary treatment you’re not replacing the water cycle; you’re just short-circuiting or short-cutting it and leaving out a tremendous bacteria-cleansing mechanism of the soil and the profiles of materials it must go through before it reaches the aquifer. There has been great success in getting recycled water to flow through bogs, marshes, and particularly sand to get fairly clean water, in effect letting the whole world of biology go to work for you.”
