Anna proves she has a sense of humour ...

You thought it was by appointing her husband to lead the Office of Climate Change.

No, its her statement that she's been SO successful with the SEQ water grid that she wants to export her expertise around the world.

How many countries are looking for projects which produce the world's most expensive water?

Excerpt from the Courier Mail:

Premier's water skills for sale

20 October 2007

Premier Anna Bligh is so chuffed with her handling of the water crisis she plans to sell the Government's vast intellectual property on the issue to the world.

As southeast Queenslanders continue to endure the most draconian water restrictions in Australia, Ms Bligh has revealed her "know-how" on water management is going global with Smart Water, a liquefied spin-off of the Smart State brand.

Ms Bligh said the venture would create "a major new export industry" and become the focus of overseas trade missions usually reserved to promote multibillion-dollar industries such as mining.

"Queensland is a world leader in water management," she said.

But the plan, which combines government and business expertise with the research power of universities, comes despite constant criticism that poor infrastructure planning has resulted in a race to finish the $9 billion water grid before dams run dry.

Opposition Leader Jeff Seeney said he was highly amused at the Smart Water concept.

"They won't even get enough money to buy a bottle of water for their experience," he said.

"There is no greater indicator of failure of this Government in terms of delivering infrastructure and they are going to bundle the expertise that was responsible for that and sell it on the world market."

The Government has been regularly found wanting on water, including ignoring a 2001 blueprint for shielding southeast Queensland from the current water crisis.

Home water rebates are suffering massive backlogs, councils have been sparring over restrictions and towns near Gympie's Traveston Crossing Dam proposal were found to have been not consulted properly.

The Western Corridor Recycling Project west of Brisbane, where only 130ML of waste water will be pumped each day, was supposed to pump 230ML a day.

Costs also have blown out.

But Ms Bligh said the water grid had captured both national and international attention.

"The figures are amazing: a record $9 billion of expenditure, more than 3000 workers working on our water grid and a staggering three million hours of employment on this project," she said.
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See - Anna has a sense of humour.

Amazing is right - amazingly overbudget that is ...