.... a really immoderate rant about water restrictions (and/or lack thereof).

and especially about the nsw govt, and how cross it makes me that the garden
hose police get around busting people for watering their gardens on the
wrong day, but the authorities seem not to care(?!) how much
drinking-quality water people flush down their dunnies and showers and
generally waste _inside_ the home where they'll never be caught, and where
govts seem unwilling to encourage change in people's ludicrous, wasteful
behaviour.

inside the home, many people on town water are heedless, greedy ninnies, but
that's ok. it's quite all right to flush 20 litres down the drain because
you did a wee, but god forbid you give the veggies or the flowers a bit of a
squirt with the hose. it's quite all right to have a bazillion-litre shower
when you're not even dirty, but god forfend you water a tree so it doesn't
die.

being on my own water supply, i'm probably well out of it. if i were in town
now, getting crosser & crosser about the whole thing, i'd probably be
shouting "i heard that!!!" at the neighbours every time they flush the loo.
g

where are the community service announcements? where is the thinking and
discussion on a better way to harvest and allocate and charge for water, so
that people can use it how they think best, but knowing they only have their
little allocation and at its true cost, so they better think carefully?
there are simply no immediate _consequences_ for wasting water (that people
can see) - it's just an endless, clean, cheap, lovely supply that will never
run out. if it ever does run out, the consequences would be horrendous - but
the "waste not, want not" philosophy is clearly not foremost in enough
people's minds. all that is happening is people's lovely, health-giving
gardens are dying, & the nsw govt has its head up its arse, and the liberals
are even more useless (so that's no use).

.... but anyway, i deleted it & posted this much more civilised rant instead.
sorry to bring this subject up again, but really - this is a problem that's
not going to go away. people need information & leadership & greywater
systems & tanks & the knowledge of where they are going wrong. but all they
get is the ****ing garden hose police. it makes me want to scream.
:-)
kylie