When Enough Is Not Enough

About 1.5 months ago, I mentioned about the Target155 for curbing the water consumption by Melbournians. Now, we all know Melbournians and in fact, Australians are very generous and very eco-minded. However, I didn't expect fellow Melbournians to be sucessful in achieving that target of 155 litres per person per day mark! We not only hit the target but we fared much better than expected. The current average for us is 149 litres per person! From 165L to 149L in "trial" period, we gotta give ourselves a round of applause~!

However, it seems that greediness (can't think of other nicer words) is again in us. Look at

Recent rainfall and cooler days mean Melbourne households should be consuming much less water than they have been, water utilities say. Recent weather has helped keep water consumption down, with average water use at 149 litres per person a day, just under the target of 155 litres.

But Yarra Valley Water managing director Tony Kelly said Victoria remained in severe drought and people needed to cut their water use even more.

"Given the amount of rainfall and cooler days, I would expect to see much lower consumption, Getting water use down really low now will hold us in good stead when the hot summer really hits." Mr Kelly said.

Obviously, he's not the best motivator in Melbourne! Instead of congratulating fellow Melbournians for their efforts, he went to rub it in saying we could have done better? Sure, we thank God for opening the Heaven's gate for the rains but if we are not conscious enough ourselves, would it make much difference? It never seems that we are doing enough, we are always not as good as they expected :)

Anyway, instead of keep asking us to cut down on our usage, etc. They should be doing more to help minimised the consequences. Instead of asking Melbournians to install rain water tanks and get rebates, why don't the Government install it for us for FREE? After all, the "costs" for the Government will be even larger if Victoria really runs out of water.

How about the industry or commercial sector which I believed uses more water than residentials. Maybe Government should increase water tax on them? Oh wait, the economy is struggling, Governments are bailing some of the big fish out! They can't impose more tax on them! So, the extra costs will be passed on to residential consumers because we can survive the recession and there'd be homeless programs to keep us in our houses! :P

By the way, we should save water and start drinking beer. That way, we can save water and help boost the economy by spending on beers! ;)