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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 17, 2009, 11:20:19 AM
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Householders to be charged for each flush of toilet
HOUSEHOLDERS would be charged for each flush under a radical new toilet tax designed to help beat the drought.
The scheme would replace the current system, which sees sewage charges based on a home's value - not its waste water output.
CSIRO Policy and Economic Research Unit member Jim McColl and Adelaide University Water Management Professor Mike Young plan to promote the move to state and federal politicians and experts across the country.
"It would encourage people to reduce their sewage output by taking shorter showers,recycling washing machine water or connecting rainwater tanks to internal plumbingto reduce their charges,''Professor Young said.
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The reform would see the abolition of the property-based charge with one based on a pay-as-you-go rate and a small fixed annual fee to cover the cost of meter readings and pipeline maintenance, Professor Young said.
I guess they plan on installing a sh*t meter on every house. If they did that in DC, they could pay for Ooooooobama's porkulus bill in a week.
MORE (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24659589-5005369,00.html)
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I guess they plan on installing a sh*t meter on every house. If they did that in DC, they could pay for Ooooooobama's porkulus bill in a week.
MORE (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24659589-5005369,00.html)
:o Jesus! what if you eat alot of fiber in your diet? I'd have to be Donald Trump to live in Australia! :-)
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The scheme would replace the current system, which sees sewage charges based on a home's value - not its waste water output.
Are you kidding me?! Do those who have more expensive homes have more sewage? That is insane on the surface.
KC
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Are you kidding me?! Do those who have more expensive homes have more sewage? That is insane on the surface.
KC
That would explain home prices in Kalifornicate.
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Apparently they don't use the conventional water meters so many of us are used to there. The meters of course measure the supply taken into the house, not actual flushes or other such silliness, usually the inflow is the basis for both water and sewerage charges. Bit of journalistic hyperbole involved in the headline, I think.
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Are you kidding me?! Do those who have more expensive homes have more sewage? That is insane on the surface.
KC
Septic tanks/fields are based on the number of bedrooms in a house...larger the house, bigger the field. So, based on that....a larger, more expensive house, will have more sewage. If there's only room for a small field, it limits the building permit for the number of bedrooms. We have a 5 br house, so there are 2 septic tanks and a very large field.
Not necessarily true, but that's the way it's calculated in this area.
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There was somewhere on the south east coast last year that was going to start charging people for using water from their own wells.
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There was somewhere on the south east coast last year that was going to start charging people for using water from their own wells.
I remember hearing that...it was summer before last...I think in Georgia. They were in a horrendously bad drought.
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I remember hearing that...it was summer before last...I think in Georgia. They were in a horrendously bad drought.
Eh, shouldn't be a big deal down there...no indoor plumbing anyways. :fuelfire:
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