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Prime Minister, we have a water problem

By Bernard Eddy - posted Wednesday, 2 September 2009


What will happen to our sunburnt country then?

The executive summary of the report actually says: “Similar network industries including rural water, electricity and gas and others such as telecommunications, rail, port and airports have undergone successful market and regulatory reform over recent decades. Why not urban water?”

In other words, “clap if you believe in faeries”.

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Let’s simply place the facts of global water privatisation before the Australian people and ask them to decide in a referendum.

Its time to inform the public and bring them into the debate: privatising our water supply is akin to selling our sovereignty. Australians need to know now the move to sell the country's water has been going on behind their backs for more than ten years. They don’t have a clue what’s going on or, what has happened when water has been turned over to privateers in many other countries.

In another five years time, it will be too late and our children will curse us into an early grave.

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Bernard Eddy is the co-convenor of the Australian Water Network.

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