Mess with the Tiger and you will quickly find out on which planet he/she resides. You better hope it's not yours :p
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Yes I'm all for supporting tigers they are on the verge of extinction; prob more in zoos now.
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I already am; but can't bothered looking for the invoice again atm.Very happy to.One estimate that our volume of water used dropped by 30% when water meters were installed.Have been through this mm.
Jt i thought the water tax was to fund river remdiation, not to conserve water.
So many mixed messages coming from the labour camp!
Just go to their website it is all there. Interesting no one queries the royalty paid (resource rental) to extract oil,gas, gold ,coal, and gravel but water? Dairy farming is having major effects in Canterbury and there are large numbers of multiple corparate farms. I see no reason why they should not pay for the water used to make profits.
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Thats because they are essentially finite resources whereas water, generally just falls form the sky in copious quantities
The worst polluters of the Avon River are city folk with their tyre shreds and petrol and oil on roads, washing their car suds down the drains, along with paint and any other gunk; all the fertiliser thrown on the gardens and lawns; their insistence of having loads of trees so all the leaves fall into the storm water in Autumn. Even raw sewerage. Only fair city folk should pay the same as farming folk if anything has to be aid at all.
I would not have the slightest clue. Fartherist away area of expertise i could imagine. There are experts for that sort of thing to work out a royalty for the use of water. maybe that makes it easier too. For the "use" of water not for the water .:sleep:
for a start it should be water that hits the ground from the irrigator - because that is the stuff that will eventually flow into poluted river.
It cant include the water that leaves the pivot sprinkler as some will be lost to evapouration before hitting the ground.
They have to measure their consumption now in Canterbury anyway. otherwise how do you check they are not exceeding their allocation?
Farmers are all honest of course but I am old enough to remember a sheep retention scheme where NZ s flock increased massively overnight.
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Easy
Individual region pollution remediation cost / litres irrigated in the region X litres irrigated on the individual farm = individual farm irrigation tax. Spread tax bill equally over a number of years eg 20 years. The tax is levied on the farm, not the owner
But should also apply to non-irrigated farms because they are also very polluting
In non-irrigated areas it should be ratio'ed on head count and animal type
And all industries should make a contribution as well, based on effluent BOD or COD, suspended solids, toxic trace metals