Sydney - where money buys water for your garden ...

Excerpt from Sunday Telegraph:

Drinking water used on gardens

23 September 2007

Drinking water from Sydney's dams is being sold off to wealthy residents, who are allowed to use it to water their gardens under a loophole in the city's water laws.

Sydney Water has confirmed that Level 3 water restrictions do not apply to water sold to water carriers, even though it is sourced from Sydney's drinking supplies.

At least 150 water carriers have been licensed, allowing them to obtain water from metered pipes connected to Sydney drinking supplies.

The carriers pay the same amount regular customers are charged for the water.

A Sydney Water spokesman said water was often sold to customers to top up tankwater supplies.

But a Bellevue Hill resident last week saw a water carrier topping up garden tanks in the Packer family compound.

He watched the driver drive down Kambala Rd, before pulling up next to a Sydney Water fire hydrant to refill.
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See - Sunday Telegraph - money buys water.