Diuretic
Permanently confused
Context is everything. In some parts of Australia we are now lookng at permanent water shortage. I used to have a front garden and a nice back yard. Now I have rocks and dirt out the front and just dirt out the back. Mike Young (one of the blokes in the article) is a water expert and one who has been telling us for some years we're in big trouble. This idea merely reflects reality. Water is a precious commodity but the way some of us who live in arid areas use it has been, to date, wasteful. You'd think in a couple of hundred years of European settlement of this landmass we'd have worked out that you can't live like a European in a desert. We might be using "Dune" as a survival manual
Di ....is it going to be a yearly set fee,or are they seriously thinking of charging per flush?
I think they're going to base it on total consumption Harry. Where I am we have a set limit per household of free water (it's accepted that we pay taxes and that the supply of water to our houses is part of the social contract) but if we go over the limit then we pay. Again where I am we've had restrictions for a few years anyway. Over there in Western Australlia they're as bad off for water as we are (except WA has a tropical north which has plenty of water, it's Perth and the south-west that's drought-stricken) so they need to be thinking about how water can be saved and a reasonably sensible price put on it.