WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
This blog is a forum for all the likeminded people who want to have a say into how our future is formed. The ideas posted here are not solely related to water, but a collection of ideas that we would like to have heard in a world that is starting to listen!
I have realised through my learning and interests, that there is one commodity in this country, if not the world, that is more important than any other. It’s not money, not minerals, not political power...
It’s WATER...
Everything we do is inextricably linked to water. Unfortunately, because generation after generation of us have lived in areas where water comes out of a tap, we have forgotten just how important water is to our very existence. We take it for granted. It’s always there. We have given the responsibility of providing it to our families to other people, “Barleeze!” We use it without a thought for how it gets to our houses.
The way our communities are expanding without proper planning for future water requirements will mean that eventually, the water will dry up. There will be too many people and households for the amount of water stored in the dams to supply. What will happen then? What happens to a community without water? “Let them drink Coke?” - Gen.Y’s!
I wish to encourage everyone to have their say about how they feel we can ensure a water supply for our future generations. Please give us your wildest ideas, your most outrageous suggestions or you most carefully considered opinions. Please also view the opinions of others with respect and do not ridicule or deride any person’s post.
If you have pictures, drawings or ideas you would like to post, please Email me on futurewateroz@hotmail.co.uk.
Where do we start? Maybe we should look at how it has been done successfully in the past. There are so many examples of what we should and shouldn’t do in history. All we need to do is look.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

POLITICS AND WATER...

Our future water problems will take generations to fix. Politicians are not in government for generations. They also try and fix problems that they will be able to fix in their term. This is the nature of politics. When we look at what people (including politicians) are willing to do, we have to look at what motivates them, and then we can have an insight into what they are likely to end up doing.

Politicians (no offence intended) want to do whatever is most popular with the majority of the people, they will then get re-elected. Most people (no offence intended) vote on what they are feeling and experiencing right now. On a very basal level, if people are hungry, they will vote for a politician offering food. When they are sitting in a communal hall amongst hundreds of other people while their homes are flooded, they will vote for the politician who is offering to build dams. Politicians know this and use it to their advantage. It’s the “What's important now?” principle.

When the water runs out, we will probably vote for the politicians who are offering water. But there will have to be an election, a Parliamentary Inquiry, new Members given their roles, Government will have to form a policy and Parliament will have to sit, etc, etc, etc...    How long can we live without water again? A couple of days at the most...
Can we trust the future planning of our water supply to Government? What is their motivation again?
Would the people of this country ever realise if we are getting down to our last drop? How will we know when it’s going to run out?
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