{"id":503,"date":"2008-06-19T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2008-06-19T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T03:41:06","slug":"nsw-water-policy-a-quid-each-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"NSW water policy: A quid each way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenplanet1.wordpress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/water.jpg\" title=\"image: Green Planet\" alt=\"image: Green Planet\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"191\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince reservoir levels have risen to 65%, NSW will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/national\/sydney-water-restrictions-ease-20080619-2t6x.html\">relax water restrictions<\/a> as of this weekend, allowing residents to wash cars with trigger-spray hoses.<\/p>\n<p>In other  news, construction sallies forth on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneywater.com.au\/ensuringthefuture\/desalination\/\">$2 billion desalination plant<\/a> at Kurnell, which will consume massive amounts of (wind farmed?) electricity and yet only be able to supply 20% of Sydney&#8217;s water needs. Sydney Water have received approval to increase  the average home&#8217;s water costs by $245 per annum by 2012 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/water-issues\/water-price-hike-blamed-on-desal-plant\/2008\/06\/16\/1213468293980.html\">fund the desal plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/water-issues\/hosing-cars-is-back--but-crazy\/2008\/06\/19\/1213770790239.html\">car washes<\/a> (and toilet flushes) with drinking water you get for $2billion. I&#8217;d hazard a guess that $2billion would probably significantly subsidise a hell of a lot of rainwater tanks for watering gardens, washing cars and flushing toilets, requiring no electricity, wind powered or not.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since reservoir levels have risen to 65%, NSW will relax water restrictions as of this weekend, allowing residents to wash cars with trigger-spray hoses. In other news, construction sallies forth on the $2 billion desalination plant at Kurnell, which will consume massive amounts of (wind farmed?) electricity and yet only be able to supply 20% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}