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Selling us down the river : Comments
By Bernard Eddy, published 29/7/2010Last week Australia was told, for the first time in a decade of subterfuge, that the privatisation of water is the aim 'moving forward'.
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(3) State and territory governments could establish entitlement regimes in order to regulate the use of water that falls on a person’s roof. These entitlements to use the water would be issued pursuant to legislation in each jurisdiction. The circumstances under which state or territory governments might issue specific entitlements in
relation to the capture of water from roofs, and the nature of that entitlement would be a matter for those governments.
(4) This decision is a matter for each of the states and territories. It has not been proposed by the National Water Commission.
(5) The Government sees no need for such an entitlement regime but as stated in response to part (4) of your question above, this is a matter for each of the states and territories.
(6) (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) These questions go to the legal interpretation of state legislation. The Commonwealth is not in a position to provide an interpretation of these provisions for the purpose of answering these questions as these are not matters which are currently the subject of Commonwealth responsibility or policy development.
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