No Betty, you cannot dismiss the issue in this manner. This water crisis is very real.

But you are right; there are health issues associated with tanks water. I have raised this matter on other threads on this forum but have not received anything like satisfactory responses from those who strongly advocate the mass implementation of tanks.

One of the major factors here, which I keep harping on, and which many people agree with but few seem too concerned about – is the massive increase in population that we have experienced in these water-stressed areas, and which continues to increase despite the grave situation!

This basically means that even with normal rainfall and a much-reduced per-capita level of usage, we would still have serious problems with this whole business in some areas, and in the near future in others.

Governments are not trying to create an unrealistic environment of fear. Just the opposite in my view – they are (at last) getting serious about the magnitude of the water issue after having been blasé for far too long. The next major step is for them to past this awful duplicity of asking everyone to reduce their level of usage while at the same time promoting ever-more users drawing from the same stressed supplies!

They are not being realistic (nor anywhere near it) with us about the depth of various other issues pertaining to the sustainability of a decent quality of life and environment in this country