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Water facts
- SEQ has nearly 80,000 rainwater tanks, a figure which is expected to grow to 600,000 by 2026.
- Under the Queensland Development Code the targeted water savings per household per year for new detached houses is 70,000 litres, while for new townhouses and units it is 42,000 litres.
- The chemical disinfection of drinking water with chlorine last century saw cholera rates drop by 90 percent in the US, along with an 80 percent decrease in typhoid and a 50 percent decrease in amoebic dysentery
- UWSRA research indicated trihalomethane (THM) formation potentials of SEQ’s source waters were consistently below the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines of 250 mg/L.
- Studies have shown that 90 percent of bacteria such as salmonella are removed in less than five days and completely removed in 15 days in SEQ dams.
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