Queensland authorities: Wastewater plans to go ahead

Plans to convert sewage and industrial waste into safe drinking water in Queensland will go ahead, it has been assured.

The area has experienced heavy rainfall this week which has seen its water levels rise and as a result, authorities have predicted that the water deficit will be made up.

However, the Queensland Water Commission has said it will instigate the proposals unless water supplies in the south east of the region are completely filled within the next three months, reported the Australian.

John Bradley, chief executive of the Queensland Water Commission, said: "If our dams are full, we would expect there would be no need to produce it, just to see it spill over the wall."

Queensland premier Anna Bligh said she would wait for advice from the commission before making any decisions on the issue.

This week in the Philippines, more than one hundred people were taken ill with Typhoid fever as the department of health put the problem down to recent heavy rainfall.