Concerned for their Elders and infants, social media lit up with young ones willing and ready to help.
Young people in remote towns at the northernmost tip of Australia are driving community resilience projects in the wake of prolonged water outages in their region. Concerned for their Elders, they’re raising funds for camp showers and bottled water. Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council said it has long called for a replacement of their water treatment plant, but those calls have never been answered.
Chief Executive Officer Alison Smith said by 2040 that was expected to reach a cost of $2.7 billon dollars. “Every 80 minutes a water pipe bursts in Queensland, so the cost to maintain and fix our state's ageing water supply framework is substantial and growing all the time - but local councils just can’t afford to do this work on their own,” she said.
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