Monday, November 24, 2014

Toilet-to-tap: don’t drink poop, unless it’s treated really, really well



Toilet-to-tap: don’t drink poop, unless it’s treated really, really well
Posted on March 10, 2013 by Doug Powell  
Don’t eat poop, and if you do, cook it.

Australians may be trying out don’t drink poop, unless it’s safely treated.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australians will be encouraged to embrace treated sewage for drinking in the largest-ever bid to overcome the toilet.to.tap”yuck factor” and push the contentious option onto the national agenda.

A $10 million drive, partly funded by the federal government, aims to convince the public that introducing recycled water to drinking supplies is a palatable, cost-effective alternative to measures such as desalination.

The ”engagement strategy” will target households, students, politicians and the water industry.

Public scepticism and fears over health risks have traditionally kept the toilet-to-tap concept off the political agenda.

The chair of the project’s research advisory committee, Ian Law, said recycled water for drinking should be examined before crisis loomed ”when dams are full … so we have the ducks in a row when the next drought comes”.

The project, led by the University of NSW, will develop a national engagement program to show that recycled water is safe and reliable. It will include devising education programs, a social media campaign and MutantFishdemonstration projects where the public could see wastewater being treated. Similar schemes overseas allow visitors to sample the water.

The Brisbane-based Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence is co-ordinating the project, which will also examine recycled stormwater.

In a terrible example of risk communication, Mr Law said, ”There is nothing more powerful than an informed public,” he said, adding those who drank recycled water wouldn’t ‘”grow five heads.”
The target audience will remember the five-heads bit.


Rupert Murdoch: News Corp Papers Didn't Decide Australian Election
1:27 AM PST 09/09/2013 by Pip Bulbeck
The Sydney Morning Herald, owned by News Corp.

News Corp.
K. Rupert Murdoch is the chairman & CEO for News Corp., and a papal knighthood knight.

Note: John J. Studzinski is a papal knighthood knight, a director at the Human Rights Watch, and was the co-head of investment banking for HSBC Holdings plc.
George Soros was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, and the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
John L. Thornton is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at HSBC Holdings plc, and was a director at News Corp.
Antoinette Cook Bush is the EVP for News Corp, and Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s stepdaughter.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Antoinette Cook Bush’s stepfather, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), the president emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Kathleen L. Brown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, California state government governor Jerry Brown’s sister, and was the California state government treasurer.
Brown signs bill to boost SD 'toilet-to-tap' plans
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Julia Gillard is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was the prime minister for Australia.
M. John Berry is the U.S. ambassador for Australia, and was a govenment relations director for the Smithsonian Institution.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. is a regent for the Smithsonian Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
John G. Roberts Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian Institution, and an honorary member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA).
Shirley Ann Jackson is a regent for the Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
John L. Thornton is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at HSBC Holdings plc, and was a director at News Corp.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
J. Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Singapore.
Flush it, process it, drink it. Repeat.                                                  
Tiny island of Singapore seeks water independence through recycled toilet water 
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/flush-it-process-it-drink-it-repeat
Ignoring Drought, U.S. to Divert Water to Mexico for Environmental Project (Past research on toilet-to-tap)                                                






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