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Water planning 101: stabilise the population

By Stephen Saunders - posted Thursday, 28 November 2024


Rather, they're busy "connecting people…to inspire positive change…for a sustainable water future". First up, the "diversity and inclusion" statement.

At WSAA, the new buzz is Nature Positive Water. "Net zero" and "circular economy" for vibrant water-utilities. Never mind, population ballooning in the water-catchments.

Then check, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Who've gone woke, since co-founder Cullen died.

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Their 30-year Blueprint professes to fix water and landscape. Set sail for "net zero". Whilst waving through, high population growth.

AWA, WSAA, Wentworth – climate techno optimists in full appeasement mode.

Good luck with that stance, guys. When water-bills get hiked 50%, it's your Sydney Water taking the rap, not the Treasury.

Ominous water-futures

For decades, a handful of sterling agencies and individuals, have tried to knock sense into Aussie endless-growth environmental and population policy. Rude or respectful, none has stopped the rot.

For elite not voter welfare, arid Australia still insists on daft levels of population growth. Perpetuating damaging levels of housing and educational inequity. Institutionalising costly, divisive, water insecurity.

Only a political unicorn (extraordinary leader, "natural" calamities, stakeholders themselves uprising) can begin to change that.

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Should that unicorn ever materialise, our trendoid water-planning culture might have to recut its cloth, for a parched continent's escalating water-liabilities.

 

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