{"id":429,"date":"2007-12-14T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"whyisitonlyconsumerswhoareonwaterrestrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2007\/12\/14\/whyisitonlyconsumerswhoareonwaterrestrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it only consumers who are on water restrictions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/opinion\/utilities-are-wasting-our-precious-water\/2007\/12\/13\/1197135654131.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">in todays Age<\/a> which points out how much water is being used\/wasted by a number of institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The main questions I have are &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are consumers on water restrictions when industry and government aren&#8217;t? <\/li>\n<li>Why, when farmers have restrictions on how much water they can pull out of a river, a factory can still do whatever it likes? <\/li>\n<li>Why is the price for water going up for consumers, but industry can still buy water very cheaply? <\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If anybody has a sensible answer to these questions, post it below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/opinion\/utilities-are-wasting-our-precious-water\/2007\/12\/13\/1197135654131.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">in todays Age<\/a> which points out how much water is being used\/wasted by a number of institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The main questions I have are &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are consumers on water restrictions when industry and government aren&#8217;t? <\/li>\n<li>Why, when farmers have restrictions on how much water they can pull out of a river, a factory can still do whatever it likes? <\/li>\n<li>Why is the price for water going up for consumers, but industry can still buy water very cheaply? <\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If anybody has a sensible answer to these questions, post it below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidentsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}