Hints of Stage 4 Water Restrictions

I wash indvidual hankies on full loads using no detergent. Amazing how green my lawns are from grey (cough) water.

Yep – I vote for 3A too.

I’d add in a once a month sprinkler day.
(I have a watering system I can’t use).

And for office buildings to have a water tune-up program.

The leap between Stage three and Stage four is draconian and probably will be generally ignored if it is put in place.

Why not a 3A?
Rather than odds and evens, why not allow the 7 -10 am and pm watering on the garbage collection day. This would spread the load evenly across the city and provide sufficient water for our gardens. It would also become very clear who is not abiding by the rules. If necessary we could also go to stage 3B, watering only on recycling days.

Of course, none of this would be necessary if offices, government and private, were required to modernise their urinals and toilets. Water is wasted away from home not where it is paid for.

WMC, let me fill in the blank for you…

1. Set up a business that sells water.
2. Scare people into not using water.
3a. Increase the cost of the water, thus making the same amount of money for supplying less.
3b. Continue the scaremongering so that more infrastructure (dams, recycling) can be built.
3c. Add on more charges to recover the cost of building said infrastructure.
3d. Lobby against increased rebates for rainwater tanks, thus ensuring the monopoly is intact.
4. Profit. Profit. Profit.
5. Sponsor sporting teams. WTF?

Googong is the fullest it has been in a long while. Look at the very sharp jump around early July. That is the dam that counts just because of its shear size.

The other thing to remember is that Corin and Bendora, despite being two seperate dams are in fact one system. Corin, the highest dam feeds Bendora.

Corin, Cotter and Bendora are the ones that fill up the quickest, not only because they are smaller, but because they are in a better catchement area.

To me looks like the usual scare mongering from the government who won’t do anything to properly address the water issue.

ACTEW trying to give us a scare to reduce water consumption?

They’re so devious, but I see through the conspiracy:

1. Set up a business that sells water.
2. Scare people into not using water.
3. ???
4. Profit!