Thread: Water cost rising

I was reading a report on the net and found it funny, and stupid at the same time. On if the comments that was posted goes like this"

27 March 2010 7:33 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
A 23000 liter water tank costs less than $2,000 and for us means we haven’t had to buy water for over seven years. And that’s for a family with two teenage girls.
Re the gymps comments about charging tank owners it may not be that far away, some time ago the Fed Govt indicated that the water that falls on a property doesn’t belong to the landowner but belongs to the Govt and was proposing to charge landowners for the water held in their dams!! I suspect this also why water tanks and filters are not being put into all houses in SE QLD place and the pipeline is being built. This is despite water tanks being a cheaper option!! Govt's make too much money out of supplying water!!


I think the writer is right on the money, it was spoken about 7 -8 years the Qld State Government was tring to pass a bill to meter the water coming from tanks and dams - the other part
"Fed Govt indicated that the water that falls on a property doesn’t belong to the landowner but belongs to the Govt and was proposing to charge landowners for the water held in their dams!! "


the farmers around my area had a meeting and agreed that this could be true - so when it floods, takes out fences, kills cattle, kills drivers on the roads, washes roads away, prevents income being made, and the list went on and on. It was then said that the owner of the rain is up for the full cost of repairs and replacement of goods, due to the owner not controlling their property that was the last time it was spoken about. its back on the floor of state Parliament again.



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