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Next month Toowoomba will vote in a referendum on whether treated wastewater should make up 25% of the city's drinking water. With state and federal governments keenly awaiting the outcome, a heated contest is underway to win public favor. Morley, who founded the Citizens Against Drinking Sewage lobby group...
Scientists like Heather Chapman, program leader at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, would love to conquer the "yuck" factor that dominates the recycled-drinking-water debate worldwide. She insists the feared health risks of chemicals in water-from fertility problems to cancers-have been overstated and the...
With researchers from seven countries, Chapman and an Australian team are devising a new set of monitoring tools to better detect the presence of specific hormones in water. One of the criticisms of using recycled water for drinking is that it can't be tested for every possible contaminant. But...
If Toowoomba and Goulburn opt to make Australian history, they won't be global pioneers. Some U.S. cities have had similar schemes for years, and since 2003, Singapore has been adding treated wastewater to its reservoirs, the quality of its NEWater exceeding World Health Organization guidelines. Greg Leslie, associate professor...
But Ross Young, executive director of the Water Services Association of Australia, which represents 29 major urban water providers, doubts recycling water for drinking would be more cost effective for Australia's major cities than desalination. With "no demonstrated community support" for drinking recycled water, he believes desalination will remain...