"0tterbot" wrote in message
... 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.

:-)) Having just spend Xmas in Sydney, the same thing applies to more
than just water.

I cannot believe the rampant and unbelievably unecessary consumption
there - for example, 1 family of 2 drivers with 2 large 4x4s in
Coogee!!!!! - not a bloody dirt road withing cooeee!!! and $9,000
spent for glass pool fencing for a minute distance to replace lace
pool fencing that had nothing wrong with it (and then there was the
cost of the garden 'landscaping' that had to go in round the pool
fencing and all it was was about 3 varieties of very common old plants
and some mulch and all that cost several arms and legs too!).

We both noticed the foubies as we drove up but the amount spent on the
fence was found out AFTER my husband and the man of this household
agreed about how appalling household air conditioning was. The Coogee
husband agreed but that does stop him having the ridiculous fourbies
and putting in lovely looking but totally unnecesary glass pool
fencing. What blood resources does he think it takes to make both
these rampant bits of consumerism?

Then we went to the next place and the pool (which hasn't been used by
either of the residents for at least 4 years) has concrete cancer so
30,000 litres of water is to be dumped in the drain before $14,000 is
spent fixing the concrete cancer!

These people have more money then brains or sense of social
responsibility.

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,

Yep, If it's brown, flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow.

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

Agree totally, but it's much more than just water - it's all the other
throw out, use it up mentality of city people too.

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.
:-)

Yep, but I'd add lots more to that rant. Don't get me started on
people who think they need new ktichens or bathrooms or computers or
TVs.............. You can see how I am about glass pool fencing and
fourbies in the Eastern suburbs...............