QWC water solution - cut back on showers ...
After months of planning, that's the solution from the QWC boffins - something a 5 year old could have thought up. Imagine if you added up all the QWC salaries it took to come to this conclusion!
Excerpt from the Courier Mail:
Quick – get out of the shower
9 March 2007
Shorter showers are the new weapon in southeast Queensland's race to reduce water consumption under tough new level 5 restrictions to be announced today.
The restrictions aim to cut household water use by 20 per cent but will rely on encouragement, rather than enforcement.
They will, however, take a more heavy-handed approach to households with high water consumption who will be sent letters to "please explain" their excess consumption.
The restrictions will be revealed to southeast Queensland's mayors today.
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As long as pipelines and a desalination plant are delivered on time, the Water Commission does not predict water supplies will fall below 5 per cent of capacity, but it is preparing level 6 and 7 restrictions to enact if the situation changes.
Remember Anna Bligh said Level 6 and 7 didn't and wouldn't exist ...
See - Beattie to peer over the shower screen to time your shower.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:51 AM
1 Comments:
In Toowoomba we have been having
very short showers, standing in a bucket to save the water for our gardens, for months. I think they should have bought in the restrictions in Brisbane months ago to conserve their dwindling supplies. You see, "shiny bums" are not practical people and it is very frightening to think they are making all the decisions regarding our water, including recycling of sewage water. Kerry Shine announced major funding for Jandowie or was it Jondaryan to be connected to the SEQ grid. (doesn't matter) If there is not enough water for Brisbane how can they add Toowoomba or any other country towns to the grid? Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. And what about the Unions. How can they be striking over the water issue? Talk about opportunists. A big firm like Multiplex will be more than a match for them. Threats and bluster do not work but a more conciliatory approach probably would.
4:52 PM, March 09, 2007
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