I just love the rain
2012-08-21
Perth is a city that desperately needs rain. We have had years of little or no rainfall each year.Couple this with an ever increasing population that has doubled in the past decade and a bit and politicians with no forethought and you have a recipe for disaster. Well disaster is fast riding in to town, the water levels in the dams are down to around 20% and we have just had the driest July on record. Oh joy even blind Freddy can see that this is not going to be a happy ending.
Do our beloved political masters care? Not one jot, we get to tighten our collective belts and use less water, have ever tightened water usage restrictions placed upon us while the powers that be go fawing after a new massive casino hotel that will use enough water for several tens of thousands of houses each day.
Does the hotel have to pay water rate levels such as we the average citizen pays, hell no, they get "large user" discounts and pay a fraction of the cost we the poor domestic customers are extorted from each year. Take my bills for water. Nearly 4000 RMB a year just to be on town water and then another 2000 RMB a year billed for the water consumed at my house. It's not as though I luxuriate in half hour long showers or have massive lawns to water. I don't. my garden is mostly native plants and they are never watered. I have a short shower and have a washing machine that uses very little aqua pura. I am frugal with water. I shudder to think what an average household here with a couple of teenagers pays for water.
I am so dismayed by the lack of foresight I think I'll go and have a nice glass of water even if a coke is probably cheaper.
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