The current round of water restrictions that we are living under could only be the start of something that could become much worse - even here in Hervey Bay.
As our population continues to grow and spending on low-vote items, such as dams, fails to keep up with that development the water shortage could become much more serious. And it’s becoming more and more obvious that the resource that we once took for granted is something that is far more valuable than we realised.
At the moment we tend to treat it as something that has little value. We fill a glass of water from the tap, drink half of it and then pour the rest down the drain. We hose down our driveways and paths because it is quicker than using a broom, we leave the shower running or we over-water our plants and all that valuable water goes to waste.
That became really obvious to your scribes this week when we noticed something interesting.
The water quality in the part of town where we live is not good; there is a lot of black crud that comes through the pipes and finds its way into the water we drink. Filtering it wasn’t very successful and we got to the stage where we were not drinking enough water. So we decided to buy in some water from Cooroy Mountain Spring Water.
And it has been a great success. The quality of the water is excellent and we are back to drinking more than the amount of water we should drink each day to maintain our health.
However, there has been an interesting side-effect to us buying our water. We have noticed that we don’t waste it. We don’t fill a glass, drink half of it and then pour the rest down the sink. Subconciously we have realised that it has value and is not something to dispose of so thoughtlessly.
Maybe it’s time we all started remembering that even the water that comes from the tap has value and should be treated as a valuable resource that does have finite limits.
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