Most countries recycle water

Many years ago at university, I learned the waters of the Rhine passed through six human bodies; before ending in the North Sea.

As the water arrived at each city; the engineers treated it to make it drinkable then passed it on with new domestic wastes.

Today most countries recycle.

When I first came to Sydney, I joined the NSW Nature Conservation Council.

I found they had paid an engineer to produce a scheme to treat all the waters of the Central Coast.

It would have cost a million dollars, so the government of the time found it cheaper to throw all that water into the sea just north of Gosford.

We should think hard again.

Dr Vincent Serventy, Pearl Beach