Comments on: An apposite quotation http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2006/12/an-apposite-quotation-2/ Two lawyers on law, legislation and liberty. And other stuff. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Legal Eagle http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2006/12/an-apposite-quotation-2/#comment-10035 Legal Eagle Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:40:45 +0000 http://legalsoapbox.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/an-apposite-quotation-2/#comment-10035 I agree that water is a precious resource and should not be wasted. However, I don't think water restrictions are the best way to go about it. <br /><br />Apparently, in Victoria, 9% of our water is used in the household. But another 9% of Victoria's water is wasted because the infrastructure and pipes are old - it just leaks into the ground. Why doesn't the government fix this instead? And we could try to develop desalination technologies and the like. No, it's easier to just punish the people... I agree that water is a precious resource and should not be wasted. However, I don’t think water restrictions are the best way to go about it.

Apparently, in Victoria, 9% of our water is used in the household. But another 9% of Victoria’s water is wasted because the infrastructure and pipes are old - it just leaks into the ground. Why doesn’t the government fix this instead? And we could try to develop desalination technologies and the like. No, it’s easier to just punish the people…

]]> By: iain http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2006/12/an-apposite-quotation-2/#comment-10034 iain Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:35:10 +0000 http://legalsoapbox.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/an-apposite-quotation-2/#comment-10034 I say a thing about your water restrictions on the TV showing repeat water waster's having their house hold supplies cut to a trickle. We are in a rural circumstance and have lived on water tanks for the last twenty years. So at time like this we carry on as usual in fact we are doing very well this year having had to buy water only once(at a cot of $100 for a load of about 3000 gallons) we understand the value of water in a way that my in the city never will. However I do appreciate what you are saying about agriculture and industry. One of the measures that the government is taking up here in Queensland is to reuse effluent industry and agriculture.<br />Take heart though the prognosticators are predicting a return to more normal rainfall next year so you shall be able to have those luxurious baths, water the garden and wash the car once again I say a thing about your water restrictions on the TV showing repeat water waster’s having their house hold supplies cut to a trickle. We are in a rural circumstance and have lived on water tanks for the last twenty years. So at time like this we carry on as usual in fact we are doing very well this year having had to buy water only once(at a cot of $100 for a load of about 3000 gallons) we understand the value of water in a way that my in the city never will. However I do appreciate what you are saying about agriculture and industry. One of the measures that the government is taking up here in Queensland is to reuse effluent industry and agriculture.
Take heart though the prognosticators are predicting a return to more normal rainfall next year so you shall be able to have those luxurious baths, water the garden and wash the car once again

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