[Greens-Media] Hunter Water ignores recycling to pump up case for Tillegra

[John Kaye]

Hunter Water ignores recycling to pump up case for Tillegra
 
Media Release: 5 May 2010
 
Greens NSW MP John Kaye accused Hunter Water of ignoring recycling as a source of water for industry in order to inflate its case for Tillegra Dam.
 
Commenting on the release of the National Water Commission's score card report on Australia's water utilities, Dr Kaye said: "Hunter Water has an appalling track record on recycling sewage. 
 
"It has the fourth lowest rate of effluent recycling amongst the 12 large Australian metropolitan supply authorities.
 
"Instead of squandering money on Tillegra dam or desalination, the Hunter would be much better served by increasing the use of waste water to match national standards. It would be cheaper and better for the environment.
 
"If Hunter Water matched national best practice, it could boost water security for households and small businesses by taking many industrial consumers off the drinking water supply. 
 
"Hunter Water is more interested in building Tillegra than in boosting its recycling effort. 
 
"By ignoring recycling as a source of water for industrial users, the Corporation is trying to inflate the need for Tillegra.
 
"Households and the environment are paying for Hunter Water's refusal to look at cheaper and less damaging options," Dr Kaye said.
 
For more information: John Kaye 0407 195 455 
 
 
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John Kaye
Greens member of the NSW Parliament
phone: (02) 9230 2668
fax: (02) 9230 2586
mobile: 0407 195 455
email: john.kaye at parliament.nsw.gov.au
web: www.johnkaye.org.au
 
mail: Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000