Water Freedom Day!

I celebrated the end of this welcome reprieve by washing both cars yesterday morning.

Hope we get another chance again soon.

Marry me, Mary.

…my skeptical self still considers the fact that old ACTEW are running a bit short of coin these days. So now they’ve upped the cost for water, they are now encouraging us to spend up on water usage. But that’s just my skeptical side.

First thing I noticed, driving back into town late this morning: the roadside signs announcing that yesterday’s water consumption had zipped up to about 160 megalitres (when the target is about 115 megalitres).

Fark. Which half-brained goose dreamed up this lifting of the exemptions? I want to meet them and slap them with a wet fish.

Ah, better make that a dry fish.

Ooops – I truly hadn’t realise there were still water restrictions. Thought they finished last autumn. Washed my car thoroughly with a hose a fortnight or so ago … none of the several passers-by or my neighbours said anything! What a nice tolerant neighbourhood I live in!

We’ve had several years though – twice over, and still no major new water infrastructure – this is why the people are getting restless.

Perhaps those very reasons are why we should be smarter about development of water infrastructure. The ‘right to waste’ is a different argument altogether.

Mary Whitehouse said :

This is not a laughing matter. You are spot on, Johnboy, to talk about a “rare opportunity to do things people from developed countries take for granted”.

It’s amazing what acquiescent Canberrans let the hippies and communists who run this town get away with.

Perhaps one day they will be brave enough to demand an adequate water supply. Maybe even a very, very courageous few will start suggesting Canberrans might be entitled to the privacy and security offered by front fences.

Damn it, why should an unprecedented drought and the fact that it takes several years of lead time for major new water infrastructure make it necessary for us to curtail our right to waste?

spoonbill said :

“JB, What a sad state of affairs that you think that washing a car with drinking water is something that ‘people from developed countries take for granted'”.

What a sad state of affairs that you think water that comes free from the sky is now ‘drinking’ water, as opposed to normal water.

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JB, What a sad state of affairs that you think that washing a car with drinking water is something that ‘people from developed countries take for granted’.