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Soulman, limiting the amount of children people can have does not = extinction of the human race.

you dont have to put restrictions in place if you put prices up, If a small amount of water was aloted to each house at a normal cost, then every drop after that was charged at 10x this amount then people may stop wasting water

catriona, I vote we adopt the Chinese method.

No, I’m serious. It would be very environmentally friendly. For example:

One kid = less water!
One political party = saves on paper for ballots

Yeah, it is a crazy idea actually. Whether we run out of water or we limit the number of kids we have, in either case the human race would go bust.

Yet the govt. is happy that the birth rate is up? If we are in such a dire situation, shouldn’t we be trying to keep the population down in order to conserve our very limited resources?

Hypocrites.

Thumper, as things stand if it does rain then we can use the Murrumbidgee pumping station to collect it.

They can have a try on later in the year and try to dictate what water gets used for what purpose indoors and how much. The reality is this cannot ever be policed.

Ingee, they’re going to ratify an international agreement on our behalf.

Shudder in your jocks.

Given the amount of geotech, engineering and EIA work being undertaken at the moment specifically in potential catchment areas you could probably assume that a new dam, or re-engineered existing dam is being seriously considered.

The reality is though that even if we had built a new dam five years ago, today we’d be looking at a bloody high wall at the end of a valley somewhere with a puddle of piss at the bottom of it.

What really interest’s me is – what’s going to happen if we end up having a dry winter and spring? Given that outdoor water use is such a minescule proportion of overall potable water consumption, what does the Governmnet have up its sleave in terms of highly proscriptive and invasive regulation of water use within the home?

“Don’t use your washing machine or dishwasher.” Oookaayy. The clothes/dishes will still need to be washed, so all we’re doing is moving today’s water usage to tomorrow. Frakking useless suggestion.

Another religous gesture from the environment movement.