This guy claims to have the solution to Melbourne's water crisis

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Originally Posted by Big Trev

This whole water restrictions issues is laughable.

Firstly, the world has only X amount of water, new water is not manufactured, it falls, it evaporates, it rises, it falls, it evaporates, it rises, etc, etc, etc.

It just so happens that when it falls, it falls in other places than where it is needed, this is called a drought.

After saying what I was saying above, about us being in the driest part of the State, get this! Here is Shepparton we are on Stage 1 water restrictions, that is right Stage 1 - go figure.

But alas, there is a political reason why (of course)

The city of Shepparton, like every farm, gets allocated water from the Goulburn Murray system, this allocation was established many many years ago.

Shepparton is allocated more water than it uses, figures I am hearing is that the City of Shepparton uses the equivilent water to what 6-8 diary farms use when they get ful allocation, now, there are hundreds of dairy farms and orchards around Shepparton, so you can imagine the water allocation (when full water is available to farms)

Farmers are getting about 30% water allocation (when they pay for 100%), City of Shepparton is getting 100% allocation!

A couple of years ago water was selling on the open market for about $1000 per megalitre (million litres)

We were on Stage 3 or 4, I can't remember which, but our local water board sold what water we weren't using on the open market and made a shyte load of money.

There was a huge outcry, this is NOT a water saving measure, this was profiteering at our (and the local farmers) expense, this water could be sold to anyone on the Murray Goulburn system.

And like I said previously, people have the cheek to complain about the rising prices of day to day expenditures, they just don't get it...