PHOTO: Politicians arrived in Bourke this week to open the treatment plant. (Image via Dugald Saunders)
In 2019, Bourke featured in the New York Times following a spate of uproar that local water wasn’t only running out, but was unsafe to drink. The new water security system due to be completed in the town this year is less of a reward, but rather a human right being delivered far too late.
The new $10 million water treatment plant will accompany a $5 million water security project, delivering four new bores, two pipelines and a pump station.
The plant has been deemed a ‘game changer’ by Minister for Water Kevin Anderson, which promises the delivery of safe drinking water during times of drought…