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Queensland rush for water filtering systems |
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Rush on household water filtering systems in SEQ
SALES of household water filtering systems have rocketed in recent weeks as southeast Queensland residents prepare for water changes.
People are on the verge of an age with recycled water from sewerage systems, desalinated water and fluoride in our supply.
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Recycled sewerage water ... you're already drinking it |
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SYDNEYSIDERS are drinking water from recycled sewage despite the State Government's commitment that such recycling was not part of its supply plans.
It has also been revealed that upgrade work to sewage treatment plants in the Southern Highlands has led to raw waste being pumped into the rivers that fill Sydney's main water reservoir, the Warragamba Dam. |
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Minister admits state's drinking water is part recycled waste |
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NINE sewage treatment plants are pumping recycled sewage directly into Sydney's drinking water supply.
Last month a whistleblower told The Sun-Herald that the sewage treatment plant at Bowral was pumping recycled sewage into the river feeding into the Warragamba Dam - Sydney's main water supply. |
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Govt scuttles Sydney water algae claims |
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SOURCE: SBS WORLD NEWS
Friday, 2 November, 2007
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/govt_scuttles_sydney_water_algae_claims_134221
The NSW government has scuttled reports that an algae bloom has made half of Sydney's drinking water supply in Warragamba Dam unusable.
A Sydney Catchment Authority report, obtained by News Limited newspapers, states that Sydney water filtration plants are not designed to filter algae. |
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Damn that algae - it's a blooming nuisance |
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SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper
Alexandra Smith
September 28, 2007
A BLUE-GREEN algal bloom has taken over most of Warragamba Dam, with small levels of toxins found just below the surface.
Recent testing of the algae had shown three positive samples of microcystins, toxins that can cause skin irritation and stomach upsets if consumed in large doses. |
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Prominent Researcher Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride |
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"Why'd you do it, Doc?
Why'd you toss the fluoride folks overboard?"
I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D in Biochemistry, D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. (Whew.) |
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Bottled Water Sales Soar as Tap Water Safety Questioned |
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Americans are drinking more bottled water than milk, coffee or beer nowadays, new research shows.
The trend owes partly to fears over tap water and also to marketing success by companies that often peddle little more than refined tap water.
Soda still rules the U.S. beverage market, but many people have become accustomed to paying for drinking water.
The average American drank 23.8 gallons of bottled water in 2004, up from 22.1 gallons in 2003, according to the International Bottled Water Association. |
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Chlorine In Your Tap Water and In Your Diet Cola |
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Would you drink a cup of pesticides?
What about a cup of chemical water?
All your aquarium fish will die within a matter of minutes if you add tap water to your fish tank without also including a de-chlorinator to remove the chlorine.
Doesn't that tell you something about the danger of drinking chlorine?
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Is Fluoride Really As Safe As You Are Told? |
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Fluoride is added to the water supply of most American cities for the ostensible purpose of dental hygiene.
The reader will be amazed to find out that such a thing is not only unlikely, but actually the reverse of the ongoing reality
The U.S. has been fluoridating drinking water for so many decades that we hardly think about it. Very few articles appear about fluoridation in newspapers and magazines any more.
At least chlorine will evaporate from a glass of water if you let it sit for an hour or so. No such luck with fluoride. Even cooking, food processing, filtration, or digestion doesn't remove fluoride. Goes right up the food chain. Accumulates in fat cells.
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Rain delivers buggy water to SE Qld dam |
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Heavy rain in south-east Queensland since the start of the year has delivered more than five months of precious water to the region, but there is a downside.
Authorities are warning of high bacteria levels in one of the dams. |
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Finding alternative water supplies |
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Declining dam levels, greater demand for water and fears over climate change have forced the government to focus on alternative water supplies.
Amid years of drought and decreasing levels in some of the country's major rivers and reservoirs the federal government in 2004 set up the National Water Initiative (NWI) with the aim of securing future water supplies. |
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Academic warns of fluoridation dangers |
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An environmental academic says he believes the Queensland Government's plans to introduce fluoride into the state's drinking water next year will do more harm than good.
Professor Mark Diesendorf from the University of NSW Institute of Environmental Studies says research shows that chronic health problems can arise from the artificial fluoridation of drinking water.
He says the Queensland Government needs to rethink its decision and come up with a safer way to prevent tooth decay.
"There's now quite a large body of scientific evidence that fluoride is actually harmful in the long-term," he said.
"People aren't going to drop dead instantaneously but chronically it is taken up and stored in the bones.
"It does damage to the bones over many years and has a number of other ill effects." |
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SA mine drinking water contaminated with uranium |
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About 100 workers at the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia's far north have potentially been exposed to uranium through contaminated drinking water.
The mine's owner, Heathgate Resources, says the water supply was contaminated on Thursday when a technician cleaning a desalination unit mistakenly added a solution containing uranium. |
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Water safety ignored: Sydney in crisis |
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Water safety ignored: Full steam ahead for privatisation
by Rohan Gowland
Last week, on the anniversary of Sydney's drinking water contamination crisis, Sydney Water announced it was going to shed its most experienced staff in order to save costs.
The move demonstrates that the Government and the private sector have learnt nothing from the water crisis and are pushing full steam ahead with their privatisation agenda. |
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Is Bottled Water Truly Safe? |
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The dangers of pollutants and contaminants in the water we drink
A study conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) indicates bottled water sold in the United States and Australia is not cleaner or safer than tap water. The NRDC's study tested more than 103 brands of bottled water and found that some brands were significantly contaminated, containing bacteria, arsenic and synthetic organic chemicals. Bottled water is subject to less rigorous testing and purity standards than those that apply to city tap water. It is also not required to be tested as frequently as city tap water and bottled water rules allow for some contamination by E. Coli (which means your bottled water can possibly be contaminated with fecal matter!!).
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