While the problem appears to have been resolved with a tunnel that has been excavated further out to sea at the expense of the taxpayer. As I understand it, is that a consortium of those expert in the arts have offered some time ago Sydney Water the ability to treat their waste at no charge. If they could control the rights in the resale of all the treated water, which was refused by Sydney Water. The group apparently resorted to the courts and particularly the ACCC for orders, which allowed for competition in the treatment of as they put it "a resource of value". This was all at a time when covered trucks laden with stools carried by Sydney Water roared through the suburb of Manly on Sydney's North Shore, which I would suggest represents the night carts of yesteryears.
What I would like to see is the Industry returned to those, not unlike the fathers of our Industry of the late 1800. I would ask the question that if the individuals who pioneered the sate of the art in the advances in the 1800's were alive today, would they be going around Australia giving lecturers on "Our Drying Climate". Saving half of Australia water use is the easy part. To return the Industry back to this pinnacle of expertise remains a formidable obstacle, an obstacle not faced in the 1800, and an obstacle that I would suggest that Australia should no longer bare.
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