Ludwig this dude is suggesting we all waste water as some form of collective Sulk against the government?

Because they want to let humans come live on land?

I read a long time ago that Australia had no water problem, never has had a lack. What it doesn’t have is good distribution of the available water and good water management..?

Why even stop with water, why don’t you all go full Anarchy on the gov’s arse. Get out there and break things, kill someone.

Chop trees down randomly, surely along with water the whole carbon credit thing will go up in smoke.

Light fires people!

Blow up your local Dam OI OI OI!

There is certainly a flagrant contradiction within governments that impose significant water restrictions while continuing to encourage rapid population growth.

Surely if restrictions are necessary to the point where the supply capability is precarious for the existing demand, then one of the first things that has to happen is a halt to any significant increase in demand.

So in this situation, which is the case in all cities that have experienced stressed water supplies and resultant restrictions, it is surely the duty of citizens to cry foul, and demand that a moratorium be placed on population growth.

If their government refuses, which has always been the case, then the citizenry should refuse to observe water restrictions.

As a matter of principle, we should all refuse to be placed under a regime that effectively allows our leaders to keep importing people that will be supported under already precarious basic resource supply infrastructure and reserves and which would just continue to make the whole situation more precarious.

But of course, refusal to observe water restrictions always needs to go hand in hand with a very strong protest about continuous expansionism. Those who use water with profligacy in this situation but who do not lobby their governments to stop or at least slow the growth rate are being highly irresponsible. They need to do both.

ludwig the whole thing is absurd[and certainly by itself wasting water will achieve little,and if poeople are going to complain/lobby govt it would help to know more of the facts,so any lobby gets fullsome reply

see that state govts sold off water rights[or at least leveraged their future income to get advance credit]you cannot but have noticed the cost of it has gone from pennies into pounds[from unmetered to metered]gone from low presure to high presure]

see the whole point is income flow[they do this by forcing mnore to come out of the tap, buy putting more presure into the pipe[so the voilume comming from the tap raises more income]...

electricity been doing it for years...as witnessed by our electrical appliances burning out[were the electricity suply constant instead of conastantly high we would know because they would last like the good old days[pre govts revenue raising..by forcing us to use more[so we spend more,

so that we become more regular consumers both of water amd electricity[but also of plumbers/electritions strvices....to fix leaky taps and melted down applyances...its all deliberated policy..hopefully only being done to force us to pay more for using more[as well as feeling guilt for doing so]...

but the stories revealing this..get suppressed by our media...not because its not news worthy,but because we just might wake up to some other things going down...you may call it conspiricy theory...

till you burn out your next applyance[or fix your next leaky tap or hear the pipes are leaking massive ammounts from the lines of supply...at least know why,...aint it funny that the tilt train never went any faster than the old one...

mainly because govt didnt spend on upgrading the rails[even the old trains couyld have gone faster..[had the money been spent of maintaining the rails...[same re the pipes been fixed instead of putting in water meters

posts script to jewel
sent email last night[must have gone to spam
johan

In SA, very few people have been fined for breaching water regulations and, after only a few months, the brand new Mitsubishi 380's, with SA WATER covering their entire sides, seen whizzing aroung suburban streets, disappeared, never to be seen again. They had appeared at least twice a week in my little cul de sac of 17 houses in the beginning.

During the first summer, the 'policing' was handed over to local councils on weekends (what a joke). Since then, nothing.

The government buy up of an ostentatious fleet of marked Mitsubishi vehicles did nothing to help that company from going broke, and people are still ingoring water restrictions.

Unlike our pollies O'Connor and Lines show perfect logic .
Anyone in doubt should read the feature article in the latest 'National Geographic' titled 'The end of Plenty'.
The water stress is totally caused by overpopulation [world wide].The government should take action to massively cut immigration ; remove the baby bonus and strongly encourage family planning to allow our unsustainably high numbers to slowly decline to a manageable level .
The NG article clearly illustrates the futility of measures as taken in the 'green revolution'to prevent world wide starvation. Increased agricultural activities,no matter how high tech,require more of our limited water and other nonrenewable resources to provide for an increased population which is a consequence of a temporary food surplus. Our government should immediately desist from their obsession of infinite growth which cannot work