Perth households were facing the threat of a ban on using sprinklers for the rest of winter if soaring water consumption was not slashed within two weeks, Water Resources Minister Graham Jacobs warned yesterday. The State Government threat comes after the public ignored repeated pleas by the Water Corporation to cut consumption during unseasonably dry and warm weather.
Dr Jacobs said the Government would consider a complete winter sprinkler ban from July 1 if people failed to cut use by turning off their reticulation systems, including those which used bore water.
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I've got to say I am not impressed with this decision by the WA government to impose this for 2 months. Firstly, because the precipitation levels vary so much for different parts of this huge state, from temperate in the SW, Mediterannean in Perth, semi-arid where I am in the Goldfields, subtropical and tropical further north.
ReplyDeleteSomebody in the government has one eye to come up with this and apply it to everybody! So what are we supposed to do where we live that gets only 8 inches of rain per year and spread throughout the year? Our winters are much drier than Perth!
It's scandalous and I've written to the "Water Minister" Graham Jacobs. Instead of these overpaid morons getting off their backsides and improve the infrastructure, we, the peasants get the penalties, and they have the cheek to propose rising water rates! Bloody madness.