'Need a lot of answers': Water security concerns after pipeline announcement
A surprise plan to fund a long-awaited Warwick to Toowoomba pipeline is sending ripples through Queensland's Southern and Darling Downs, raising concerns it could weaken water security.The state government has committed $300 million to the Toowoomba to Warwick water pipelineToowoomba Regional Council is concerned the pipeline will weaken Toowoomba's water security
"We're only a very small council, we have 22,000 ratepayers, so our ability to fund infrastructure projects like that is limited."The announcement, however, came as a surprise to the Toowoomba Regional Council, which has raised concerns about the consequences for its water security. Mr Antonio said details including the amount of water, ownership, maintenance responsibility and ongoing costs needed to be identified before the council could support the project.
Toowoombe Regional Council water and waste committee chair Rebecca Vonhoff said the state government needed to provide more information quickly."The words 'water security' sound really fantastic, but we need to understand what their idea of water security is and is their idea of water security for Southern Downs the same idea as water security for the Toowoomba region?Ms Palaszczuk said if Toowoomba didn't want the pipeline, she would "find another council who does".
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