Toilet tax proposed - pay as you flush ...

Excerpt from News.com.au:

Toilet tax proposed by Adelaide University's Mike Young and Jim McColl

16 November 2008

Hard to digest ... householders would be charged to flush the toilet under a radical new plan to save water.

Money down the loo with toilet tax

Academics say it will save water but households may want it wiped

Householders would be charged for the amount of water they flushed down the drain under a radical new blueprint to cut consumption, the Sunday Mail reports.

The scheme would replace the current regime which sees sewerage charges based solely on a home's value and not its waste water output.

A brainchild of two leading water experts, the plan was presented to State Parliament in Adelaide on Friday.

The experts - Adelaide University Water Management Professor Mike Young and CSIRO's Policy and Economic Research Unit member Jim McColl - will now promote the initiative to other state and federal politicians and experts across the country.

"It would encourage people to reduce their sewerage system output by taking shorter showers, recycling washing machine water or connecting rainwater tanks to internal plumbing to reduce their output and charges," said Professor Young.

...  

See - Pay as you flush.

Won't work in SEQ as Anna wants you to flush as much as possible ...