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No timmy, they can I believe charge you for catchment rights. Same as pumping rights from the river, they don't have a meter on that either. So the water board says, we have catchment rights over your land, and you're catching our water, no matter that we allow it to drain straight to the sea via storm water, it's ours and if you catch it you must pay a premium for that right.
So it's just s matter of time. Now there would be uproar, wait until almost every 2nd house has rainwater plumbed to their toilet and washing, and the drought is over, things are green, and watch the tax hit home.

So easy to bypass that, it'll never work.

for now they probably want the meter so they can charge you 'appropriately' for waste water services. Sewer and stormwater etc...

So easy to bypass that, it'll never work.

for now they probably want the meter so they can charge you 'appropriately' for waste water services. Sewer and stormwater etc...[/quote]

either way it won't work, it's just another way the gov want's to try and sting you for money.
Let them just try

then i propose if that happens we all dump our rain water tanks on the front door step of your local member.

bit tough to make a cup of tea without water...
...and I hate that cloro fluro stuff that comes out of a pipe they charge for!

Hey timmy, can we just dump all the water on him? On a regular basis as they fill? :-) That'd be heaps of fun :-)

I find it ironic they could claim catchment rights to water they aren't catching, hence our current water restrictions and the need for water tanks...

I'd like to see them come and measure the rain right now In the last two hours we've had more than 50mm : :toothy2:

gnash i feel your pain. we get patted on the head for water wiseness while the big 3 in vic are not fined even though they STILL dont have a water reduction plan in place.............


timmy, ive said right from the beginning that the "tax" will be a "license" or "inspection" fee under the guise of consumer safety.................

did you know that people used to have to have a license to watch free to air when it first came out? there used to be antenna police booking people!

When contracting at a major glass bottle manufacturer in melbourne, We accidentally (well not me, I'm not taking the blame) flooded the basement with town water 3 times in 2 months. This basement would be 50m long, 30m wide and probably almost 1m deep with water before anybody noticed.
It's shameful, that's like 300*500*10L = 1,500,000L each time.
The only concern was that the last time they almost flooded the 6.6kV HV room! That was when they asked me to put in some controls to reduce the likelyhood...

yet i cant water my veggie patch...............bollocks. i maintain that my pumpkins a flourishing due to the down pours we've had............

lol seriously though i've only watered them once or twice. but buggered if i'm going to water at the perscribed day at the perscibed time............they can GGF.

I actually planted the pumpkin behind the chook shed as a ground cover so the buffalo and weeds wouldn't grow over summer..............as a bonus i have lovely pumpkins and gourds

I put my greay water on my lime, orange and pumpkin, all three are going NUTS the ground is almost always damp, as it's a natural trap for water there.
Pumpkins love water :-)

Yes, I've put in a grey water hose - it's only going to the lawn, but it's still better than going down the drain. The vegie patch is too far away for that water to reach - but I use rainwater for vegies anyway.
If I didn't water the large expanse of grass we have here (and I've ONLY used greywater for it) then our sandy soil would lift off and disappear every time that southerly gale blows over. I'd end up living in a 1600sqm clay pit that flooded every winter and grew nothing in the cracks all summer....

clay and cracks? Sounds like my joint

ali-I found it was necessary to move the end of the outlet as the lint would build up in the one place... you are probably moving it already but thought I would make the suggestion anyway.