“The Sunday Mail can reveal the State Government had planned a taxpayer-funded publicity campaign centred on handing out thousands of bottles of water from the largely idle $1.5 billion Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme, in a last-ditch bid to convince Queenslanders that treated effluent was safe to drink.
“But the bottles of water - at least 40,000 - were never distributed. Instead they were stored in a warehouse before being secretly destroyed in May at a waste facility in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.”
But wait – There’s more!
“The bottles of recycled water were to supplement the thousands of bottles already imported by the Queensland Water Commission from Singapore's recycled water scheme.”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bligh-government-bungle-over-bottled-recycled-water/story-e6freoof-1225908234509
If I were Australian and I found out I had been given “treated effluent,” I might be angry. Drinking my own treated effluent is bad enough, but my government imported some from Singapore?
Linked from another story on Dave Barry’s blog.
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