WATER: “Nationals water science is kooky voodoo, Anna Bligh says”

The Australian
12 November 2008

QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has dismissed arguments against drinking recycled water as “kooky, wacky, voodoo science” and pledged not to disband her Government’s plan to provide recycled waste water to 2.6million people in the state’s southeast.

Ms Bligh attacked critics of the plan in parliament as National Health and Medical Research Council water quality advisory committee head Don Bursill cautioned that recycled water posed additional risks to supplies.

Professor Bursill said the risk would be acceptably low if Queensland followed national recycled water guidelines, as the state had indicated it would, but it was preferable to rely on conventional sources…

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