The ‘yuck factor’ pushes a premier towards desalination yet again, but history suggests recycled water’s time has come

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twitter: 45 X users

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Title	The ‘yuck factor’ pushes a premier towards desalination yet again, but history suggests recycled water’s time has come
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.5tgpvmh67
Authors	Cook, Margaret, Morgan, Ruth, Frost, Lionel, Gaynor, Andrea, Spearritt, Peter
Abstract	Australian politicians have a history of opting for high-cost, high-emissions desalination projects. The Queensland government is still wary of using the largely untapped resource of recycled water.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	22	49%
United States	1	2%
Indonesia	1	2%
Greece	1	2%
India	1	2%
United Kingdom	1	2%
Unknown	18	40%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	39	87%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	3	7%
Scientists	2	4%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	2%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2023.

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