My false teeth nearly fell into my cup of tea the other morning when Prime Minster Bill English told Duncan Garner on The AM Show it is 'too hard” to price the country' water before letting overseas company bottle and sell it.
What planet is he on? Why would he want to let international companies bottle and sell our precious water for free? It's absurd! This could be a huge revenue stream for Bill's government. Or it could be Bill's big chance to conserve our beautiful water – as it is becoming scarce worldwide.
Bill is so worried about spending millions bring our water quality up to scratch by 2040 – he's missed the point. Why improve the quality if we're giving it away for free? And why improve the quality if you're going to give it away, meaning less for Kiwis in future?
He really has lost touch on this issue. So what if it is 'hard” to make rules on this – you're in government, that's your job. To make rules to conserve and protect resources for all Kiwis – and sometimes that may be a 'hard” job to do. But just do it!
C Coffs, Otumoetai.
1 comment
Agree in part
Posted on 26-03-2017 11:28 | By astex
The PM says it is too hard to put a price on water. If this is so how come I am getting a water bill several times a year based on the quantity I use?As far as "conserve our beautiful water as it is becoming scarce worldwide" I have to disagree. Water is a commodity that is everlasting as it is simply recycled over and over again. It is the storage of sufficient water for our use that is lacking, much of this problem being caused by the Greens that protest every time someone wants to build more storage space (dams etc).
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