ACT is drought-free

id like to see hydroelectricity turbines on the lake ginninderra and burley griffin dam walls.

of course id also like all new houses constructed in teh act to have solar panels instead of tiles on their roofs.

and mini hydroelectricty turbines on all downpipes.

anyone else read renew ?

Some quick facts about Goulburn:

It hosts one of the largest smoked trout industries in Australia.

In Mossvale, just up the road, they commercially sell their water to coca-cola in Sydney.

OK the people in town at Goulburn don’t have any water, that’s because it’s been plugged up upstream for industrial purposes. If they got off their asses and stopped whinging to the Government and started action to return their waterways back to their purposes they might see a lot more action than maintaining their current regime of waiting for the federal government to pump them water.

No one is proposing there not be a minimum amount of water supplied at minimal prices.

The water prices are here.

Off the top of my head i’d like the price of water over the first 100 kilolitres multiplied tenfold.

I know a lot of people think water should be moreexpensive, but what about peo;ple who are not well off. Do you really want to see pensioners not bathing due to costs. Or single mums sending their kids outside instead of to the toilet! Access to some level of water at reasonable cost is a right in our society. Whereas wasting it on paths and luch lawns is not so neccessary. I don’t mind the new restriction regime. And I would get a tank if I had room. Not everyone is obsessed with making a profit.

Heh. I’ve always found the idea that someone might think a driveway or front pavement “need cleaning” on a daily or even weekly basis pretty amusing/bewildering.

I mean, apart from the waste of water – what a waste of TIME! Don’t people have anything better to do?

Idiot ‘restrictions’ never stopped me hosing my windows and hosing down my driveway.

Nothing gets the dust and leaves off better than 20 minutes squirting from my hose each day.

Maybe I can do it for longer each day now? May as well.

I have these neighbours upstairs (I live in units)who use the taps like ALL the time. From like 4am to midnight. I’ve being tempted to report them to someone for water wastage, what the hell are they doing with ALL that water?!?!?!
*end rant*

“i think there should be a cracker night to celebrate!”
I second the motion!

agreed. water is ridiculously cheap.

crunch the cost of a water tank and ancillaries with the equivalent volume of water you pay for from ACTEWAGL.

its nuts.

a tripling of the water cost would be reasonable as an interim measure.

as long as the $$ is used wisely and not pissed away on stanhopian whimsys.

something sustainable and infrastructure related, like lightrail.

actually, ive always wondered – where does the water from lake ginninderra go ? i it stored for a reason or just to make a nice lake for me to walk around ?

I think we need to stop inflicting our own choices on others by coercion and applaud the Chief Minister for refusing to do so.

If people want to hose their concrete down then let them pay for the use of the resource.

If the country can grow rice and cotton in the desert it can afford to let people have the sorts of gardens they want (if they’re willing to pay for the water)

Bonfire, what you said actually made some sense! I see you still managed to slip the term ‘softhead’ in there though.