Why not have marches against tobacco 3651Fairly easy"? Ha! You have obviously never been around tobacco growing. sugar is an easy to grow weed. Tobacco, on the other hand, is extremely difficult to grow...
Unless you count a lot of patronising TV adds to make people feel guilty for having a shower with a shower head that actually sprays enough water to wet your body.
The population of NSW has been increasing rapidly due to immigration. A net increase of 1000-week in Sydney alone due to immigration as the Premier Bob Carr has noted several times. It keeps wages low and priovides market growth for the building industry and big retailers and corporations that provide the lobbying and donations that feed the political machine.
However comming up with the extra money for investment in expensive long term water and other infrastructure needed has been 'glossed over' and foisted onto the Australian tax payer and consumer. Some elites benefit, most of us pay in the form of higher taxes, overstretched infrastriucture, job comppebreastion and overcrowding where its nice to live (usually where there is good rainfall on the coast).
The other problem is that our water supply once cost about 30c kilolitre and came from a well organised series of dams, rivers, pipelines and catchments.
There are now no more of these natural sources of water available and new water will have to come from reverse osmosis of either wastewater or seawater(desalination) and will cost probably $2.00-$4.00 a kilolitre.
The plumbing costs of equiping a house with safe and legal rainwater catcment, storage tanks, pressurisation pumps and purification equipement is about $12,000 plus there are long term maintenance and power costs.
Get angry with the bastards that put us in this position.
