Water cost rising

[opelblues]

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.



your thoughts

[Gingermick]

almost immediately after the start of the Global financial crisis, which caused a hiccup in the huge revenue stream from coal royalties, the state government pronounced that it was in huge financial trouble and had to sell the ports, railways and ..... some orphans if they could .
How could they run out of money so quickly? How can they get the book back closer to balance while still enjoying the high life and making life difficult for people who pay more tax than they receive in government assistance?
that's a very moderated snippet of the way I feel about state governments

[bsrlee]

According to Landline, this is already being done to farmers in some states (NSW I think). If the Fed's do something, then they have to pay compensation under the provisions of the Oz Constitution, but there are no such restrictions on the States, who can legislate to ruin your business with a fair degree of impunity.

Another example of this is the NSW Govt. currently legislating to give themselves the power to compulsorily acquire properties purely for the purpose of re-selling them at a profit to developers.