In article , Capetanios Oz
wrote:

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:13:43 +1100, Peter Wiley
wrote:
I fail to see the problem. Yeah, Sydney is running short of water but
there is far too much water wasted. Having owned a rural property in
NSW for 20 years and provided all my own water storage, I've been water
conscious all along. I put in a dual system (dam water for
gardens/toilets, potable water for kitchen/washing) back in 1983.
Sydney people are finally starting to face reality.

My new place in Tasmania has some 60,000 litres of storage for potable
water (full right now) plus 2 dams for general watering.

It's going to be real amusing in the years to come. Please don't send
more people this way, though. Prices have gone up and lots of building
is happening all over the place. Next week I pour the slab for my
precision machine shop and finding a concretor is difficult due to the
building boom.

Peter Wiley

You just did a good job outlining the problem.
Water is too cheap, we've wasted it for decades and now all we get is
restrictions without any thought to reductions
Reuse of grey water has actually bee virtually banned until recently
because of Council worries about health issues.

Not to mention that storing rainwater was forbidden until recently.
Visual pollution from tanks or some such rubbish. I wouldn't drink
Sydney rainwater - too much air pollution - but using it on the gardens
etc is fine. Sydney is going to have to conserve/reduce because they
can't get any more - it simply isn't available at any acceptable
environmental cost.

Stuidity reigns!

Sadly true. In Hobart, water isn't even metered. Plenty of supply for
the population. Long may it stay that way.

PDW