SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Recycled water will not be a part of Sydney's water supply even though a poll showed that 80 percent of residents surveyed in New South Wales (NSW) would be willing to drink it, a February 12 story in The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Instead, the NSW state government will build a desalination plant that will treat 33 million gallons of water per day and have a cost that is half that of a wastewater treatment facility, the story said.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma said the desalination plant will take less time to build and will serve as one of "a range of measures" in terms of securing Sydney's water supply, according to the article.
In an earlier WaterTech Online®story, an Australian scientist, Prof. Don Bursill, who in 2004 oversaw the national drinking water guidelines, said there are too many risks involved with drinking recycled water and that he wouldn't drink it himself.
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