Selling us down the river

This is a crime and a sell out as. It is as un-Australian as it gets. We are faced with no choice in the matter because both sides of the right wing modern day versions of the Labor and Liberal party think privatising water is a great idea.

There is zero public awareness; zero public discussion; and absolutely no effort by Labor or Liberal governments to begin to openly discuss this deception with the Australian public.

An urgent public discussion concerning water-as-a-human-right is pivotal if we are to shake the federal government out of its apparent state of denial on the dire state of water and its current mis-management in Australia

Maude Barlow, author, water activist, former Senior Water Adviser to the United Nations and patron of the independent group of groups, the Australian Water Network told attendees at the Australian Water Summit on April 1, 2009:

We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more climate change ... We can't do this anymore. Just as a few lonely economists warned us we were living beyond our financial means and overdrawing our financial assts, scientists are warning us that we are living beyond our ecological means and overdrawing our natural assets.

American environmentalist Ernest Calabash calls them the four laws of ecology:

All things are interconnected. Everything goes somewhere. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Nature bats last.