Bush town water supplies must be chlorinated: public health director

By Sally Cripps
Updated November 24 2015 - 2:57pm, first published 12:00pm
Clean it up: Water treatment plants such as this award-winning one at Richmond, are being urged as essential for rural communities to combat waterborne diseases. Picture: contributed.
Clean it up: Water treatment plants such as this award-winning one at Richmond, are being urged as essential for rural communities to combat waterborne diseases. Picture: contributed.

Western Queenslanders need to think beyond “giving their families the same water they give their cattle” – that’s the blunt assessment of the state of water supplies in the bush given by the director of the Townsville Public Health Unit following a series of public information sessions held in recent weeks.

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