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.
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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.
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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