Thursday, December 4, 2008

Community participation becoming a water producer

Part of my plan is to engage 50% of property owners in collecting and capturing water via rain water tanks and then injecting that water into a water grid and being paid for the water put into the grid. The same way surplus electricity is put into the grid for sale/use by another consumer.
We can collectively target harvesting and producing 720 million litres of water a year. That's enough water to to supply 14,000 homes a year at a usage rate of 140 litres per day.

This alone takes off the necessity to draw any water from our dam or underground via pumping from bores.
Why are we pumping 5000 Ml from our underground water supply's at great expense then treating it with chemicals and then we use it just so it can be then feed to a coal mine some 3000 Ml of it?
We the ratepayers are funding the entire process the extraction the treatment the infrastructure the maintenance and all running costs all met by the ratepayers. Just so we supply a commercial Coal mine it's water. On top of all this council intend to sell this water a second time after we have already paid for it. Now that's where you come in as a producer of water by you adding to the water grid you save council having to pump water from underground. Save Council from having to treat the water with any chemicals at all. So you should be rewarded for being a contributor to a commercial enterprise.

The water you inject into the water grid can be metered. You can be directly paid for your participation in producing water, water that is sold to commercial Acland Coal mine. And this will ensure economic growth of this region.

Give people reward for participation in becoming a water harvester & producer giving them the power to change our current water supply from near empty to a position of an abundous of water so much water that maybe will top up Wiven Hoe Dam not the other way around.

Full details of implementation will be available click here to watch video
Kind Regards
Rob Berry Candidate Toowoomba regional Council
0407 874 652
email sgtb@bigpond.com