A key federal election issue, which the carefully stage-managed
leaders’ debates are ignoring, is one on which all our lives depend:
access to clean drinking water.
Our rivers are dying and our artesian basins are being poisoned
because river water is being sold off at bargain basement rates to the
major parties’ corporate donors.
Corruption and water theft is just a part of how business is done in large parts of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Water security is vital for rural communities because water sourced
from artesian bores and rivers is crucial for farming, especially as
prolonged drought bites hard all the way down the east coast.
Given that cities are sited on the coast where rainfall is more
regular, access to clean water can be seen as a rural issue, rather than
something we all need to be concerned about.
Protecting our water is vital for all of us.
