99 suburbs, but Bonbeach ain’t one?
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I’m pretty sure that little of Melbourne’s water is ‘treated’, but it’s all disinfected.
The Winneke Treatment Plant at Sugarloaf treats water from there (that’s pumped up from the Yarra). Think it’s flocculated and filtered there.
Most of our water comes from reservoirs like Maroondah, Cardinia etc and pretty sure it’s just chlorinated and sent down the pipes.
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South East Water has since added another 11 suburbs to the list.
Belgrave
Belgrave Heights
Belgrave South
Ferntree Gully
Lysterfield
Lysterfield South
Selby
Tecoma
Tremont
Upper Ferntree Gully
UpweyOther side of the hills.
It’d still be better than the water they get at Powelltown day to day.
Definitely risky playing in the ones up there if the trainers refilled the bottles after the twos from the water up there.
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I lived in Sydney in 1998 during the giardia scare. Sydney water tastes awful, and even worse once boiled.
Didn’t take long before we decided giardia was better than boiled water.
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nasty bugs those.
Tank water ftw!!!
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Hang in there lads
It’s a been a rough day.
As I said earlier, I still don’t know if it’s even related to the water situation. Seems quite possible, though.
Quality humble brag.
I got giardia once from drinking water in the Victorian high country untreated. (Camp Creek for anyone who knows where that is, just below Mt Speculation). Some felt it has got itself into the deer and the wombat population.
It had its effects about a week and half after exposure. Could not leave the toilet all day. Such a sorry state. I would be happy to never experience that again.
It’s certainly better tasting than most other water. It tastes like water should, tastes of nothing. I have been told by industry professionals that it’s due to the pristine catchment. That the old board of works or govt or whomever restricted development in the catchments, which has meant that the quality of the raw water is excellent.
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Sydney lets/has let cows etc live in their water catchments. So basically you’re drinking bullshit.
Which I guess explains a lot about Sydney.
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Yes they do a good job of keeping people largely out of the catchments. The salinity of water in Melbourne is about 50 ppm, about 1/600 to 1/700 of seawater. Adelaide by contrast has about 350ppm, about 1/100 of seawater, not too surprising given the Murray Basin was a sea a few million years back.
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From memory, I’m pretty sure there is a sign at Sugarloaf Reservoir which says Melbourne drinking water is the best in the world! Does anyone remember seeing that?
Btw this is a beautiful place to go for a walk, absolutely stunning.
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Water in Melbourne is the only Water I’ve ever been able to drink without filtering it. The water in Adelaide I can’t drink even after filtering. I buy bottled water whenever I go to Adelaide.
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And that’s the problem with a lot of catchments. Qld is the same.
Is your daughter still ok?