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Horticultural Society of Canberra makes a submission to ACT Water Inquiry
The Society recently made a written submission to an inquiry into water use and management in the ACT, which is being conducted by the Planning & Environment Committee of the ACT Legislative Assembly.
The submission focuses on the possible impacts of severe (Stage 4) water restrictions. It argues that Canberra’s parks and gardens could be severely degraded by such restrictions, and that water restrictions in general are an inequitable and inefficient method for distributing scarce water.
The submission concludes that the Government should examine more realistic ways of pricing water. Such pricing would encourage more equitable and efficient distribution of water particularly in times of scarcity, and allow those who want to preserve their gardens more opportunity for doing so.
The full text of the submission is located here as either
WORD document or
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