“the global population is encouraged to refrain from turning on their taps” Unfortunately, “turning on their taps” is required for handwashing, drinking, cooking and a host of other life sustaining things.
Perhaps rather, think of the millions who have no taps to turn on! Those who have to walk miles, just to carry water home. Those who have to wring the moisture out of plants to sustain themselves. Those who have no supply of clean, safe water. I think I’ll put in a drain at the end of my driveway and pipe the runoff water to the lawn. That should save me from getting taxed for it!

Don’t count on it, Give more. The ‘global’ push is to have us all on water meters and paying ever increasing tribute through them to our perpetually ‘cash strapped’ governments.

Who can then go further into debt paying for all the additional wonderful things *they* know we all need but don’t have any money left to pay for ourselves.

Just ask the good people of Auckland, New Zealand. Who, being the good environment and conservation minded friendly folk that they are, believed they were doing their bit for slaking the thirst of some poor parched sub-Saharan African by having water meters ‘force’ an end to frivolous use of the precious substance in their fair city.

They took the conservation kick one step further, even. And many installed cisterns, to catch rainwater coming off the roof of their abodes. For use in watering the garden, or washing the car, etc.

Well, what happened? Piped water usage fell, as the propaganda preached that it must if universal thirst was to be forestalled. But worse, the expected additional revenues from that City’s new water meters didn’t materialise. So they sent the Assessors around, and any house with a cistern had an additional tax levied on it to make up the shortfall.

The same will happen here with garbage. With recycling, the amount of trash going to the landfill will decrease and the Regional District will up the rates to try and make up the lost revenue. Round, round we go.

Exactly, socredible. Water meters are not about saving water, they are about profit generation and a revenue stream for government, nothing more. It’s about getting people paying for something they used to get for free.

The recycling industry is another example. It is very much a ‘for profit’ industry, no different than any other. Often, it takes more resources, energy, time, and money (from you and me) to ‘recycle’ something than it does to create it from scratch.

They can start by charging bottling companies here in BC for the water they use. In Ontario they charge them for water, to quell the throngs of protestors, but it works out to something like 20 cents per 10,000,000 litres or some ridiculous amount like that. On of the biggest scams in the world, freely getting a resource and selling it back to the people at a huge profit and doing virtually nothing to it to get it to a saleable product.

I whizzed, I flushed. I’m thankful for water. Mud is taxable? Who knew? Bottled water is taxed. A dump truck load of dirt is taxed. Taxes on dirt and water? Only in Canada. Tax me, I’m Canadian. Even the container I keep my mud in is probably taxed, come to think of it.

Happy Water Day everyone.

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml

So, what are you saying? If I take a shower and shorten it by 5 mins the people in sub sahara Africa will be able to drink today? Did you know that every drop of water there has ever been on earth is still here to day in one form or another. The form of water is constantly changing and the location is constantly changing, but there is as much water on the planet earth today as there was a billion years ago. Its just that unchecked use by agriculture and big business has depleted the aquifers quicker than they replenish.

Actually I don’t drink water. Fish fool around in it.

The problem is much much bigger than “unchecked use of water by agriculture and big business depleting the aquifers quicker than they replenish.”

Nearly 1/4 of Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, over 70 percent of China’s lakes and rivers are polluted, and pollution accidents happen on a near daily basis there.

Go here and wait for the pictures to load and read some of the major pollution accidents that have killed some of their rivers and lakes.

http://www.habitatadvocate.com.au/?p=21821

This is just China, you might want to take a look at India and many of the other countries around the world, including Canada. Did you know it takes anywhere from 2 to 5 million gallons of water to frack at each natural gas well? That water is mixed with a toxic cocktail of chemicals and is pumped under extreme pressure into the shale to fracture it to release the gas. That water can never be used again for anything!

Huh, we are wasting our most precious resource (water) at an alarming pace, so again I say; Happy Water Day ;-)

Water hysteria, climate hysteria, environment hysteria, anti-corporation hysteria, anti-industry hysteria… round and round we go.

JB, one of the many benefits of water is our ability to use it to so easily flush our crap down the toilet.

Couldn’t resist asking if there is anything else that you might wish to flush? ;-)

jb and hart guy you two sound incredibly intelligent. where is all this toxic water winding up? would you drink this water? I didn’t think so. if you like tainted water just go to alberta and try some.

Good point ice. We just need to be more responsible about how we use this planet and it’s resources. Our planet’s resources are finite and we need to think about our future generations, and what kind of world we will be leaving them.

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This is not radical, alarmist, or unreasonable thinking here, it is about thinking responsibly!

If our planet’s resources are actually “finite” then why do we need to worry about “future generations”? The end result will be the same regardless of whether we do or don’t, will it not?

On the other hand, if our planet’s resources are NOT so “finite” after all, but have been demonstratably capable of virtually infinite extension through ongoing scientific discovery and invention all down through history, then the whole ‘doom and gloom’ scenario much beloved by the ‘Left-wing’ gurus of there’s-an-impending-scarcity-of-this-or-that-so-we-must-carefully-ration-what-is-left school of thought, (if it can be called ‘thought’), is laid bare for what it really is.

Which is no more than the basic premise of ‘socialism’ ~ that a highly centralised and omnipotent bureaucracy should decide what will be produced, and how much each of us will be allowed to have of it.

Right on socredible. Most of the alarmism and the doom and gloom is BS designed to forward an anti-capitalism ideology, plain and simple. Why not just come out and say it?

Meanwhile, in the real world, what we need to do is recognize that resource extraction will continue, and figure out the best and most responsible way to do it, rather than just stamping our feet and saying ‘no’.