"Jonno" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
"Jonno" wrote in message

Which powers? The government and corporate bodies
How are they holding people to ransom? By making them pay excessively
for water.

Oh rubbish! Australia is the dryest inhabited continent on earth and
most Australians pay very little for the scarce resource of water. If
most people paid the true economic value for the water they use, they'd
be horrified.

I live on a farm so every drop we use has to be provided by ourselves.
To do this with any degree of adequacy means 3 x 5,000 gallon tanks (+
other freestanding ones), a bore, several dams, at least 5 pumps, God
knows how many hundreds of metres of 2 inch poly pipe and that is
before one drop comes out of a tap. I'd hate to think how many thousands
of $s there is tied up in all that infrastructure and that isn't counting
the upkeep as bits need replacing.

I have bugger all sympathy for complaints about how much water costs
because I think that most Australians are still getting water cheap.
It's just expensive in comparison to what they've paid in the past.

And if the various State governments do ever privatise water, then watch
for the squeals then as the commercial imperative comes into play -
that's going to happen soon with NSW electricity so we are thinking we
may need to go off the grid.

Why? Think about it.... To make money...

You actually agree with me. but you dont see it?

So why did you write:"By making them pay excessively for
water.

Water is essential to keep the "whole" country going.
It should be essential services type stuff, and you call it rubbish?

Reread what I wrote. I responded to your comment about being held to ransom
and paying excessively for water.

You should be very scared. I am sorry if you dont understand some of the
things I see as "easy stuff" and maybe I should go into the nerds section
of such an area, but I am trying very hard in Victoria to wake us up to a
government wich is not building dams, allows run of, is trying, and
succeeding in making farmers pay for run of if they put a dam in. These
people are also involved in the Port Philip bay dredging, not caring about
others when they will probably damage the ecology there. They're a bunch
of government backed corporations, whose identities are hidden behind, you
will probably (guess this) "shareholders" who may prove to be family
members of government in various guiswes.
We are also in the process here of having such a large population increase
in Melbourne and surrounds, that we could become bigger than Sydney in
population. And they're not building dams, or power stations.
Is that smart do you reckon?
I wasn't a greeny until, I wsaw some sense in becoming one..But dont
thoughtlessly follow their ways.