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Water recycling to go ahead despite rain: Bligh

Ms Bligh says the dams are still more than half empty, so recycled water will be added next year. - ABC

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says rising dam levels will not change her mind about recycled water, unless she gets different advice from the Water Commission.

The recent rain has pushed the combined total of south-east Queensland's dams to above 42 per cent, the highest since March three years ago.

Mike Foster from SEQ Water says another five or six weeks' supply has gone in following recent rain.

"Certainly with the forecast rain over the next three to four days those inflows are likely to continue well into next week," he said.

But Ms Bligh says the dams are still more than half empty, so recycled water will still be added next year.

"If there was any advice that we could change our tack on this then of course we'd take it," she said.

"But I need to stress I have no such advice."

She says that advice would come from the Water Commission.

- ABC

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