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I dont know about the world but we havent sorted it here yet. Exorbitant fees for getting it into farms inland via irrigation they pay through the nose they are cutting the fruit trees down now cant compete with China.
Our government are stupid regarding water always have been. We all used to have tanks on the sides of our houses in the 50's and 60's the cock heads made them illegal to have in residential areas so out they all came. Then we got drought for 7 years with the El Nino weather pattern so they said get tanks for your gardens etc, so back they came. Then they spent billions on a desalination plant here because the dams were at less than 30% for all those years. They finished building the plant and it hasnt stopped raining since and not one liter has been pumped from the place but it still needs upkeep and paying off, so now the water rates and state taxes are skyrocketing to pay for it.
In this country, you can be arrested for collecting rain water.
Why is that? Are they protecting us from water born diseases or them from losing a taxable resource? I know what they'd make out but I wonder the truth about it.

You buy land here in NSW and you can get taxed on the water that naturally runs through your property creeks rivers etc,thats aside from the man made channels. I think dams for straight catchment are not charged for.

Out here some smart farmers dam up creeks so the extra weight of the water goes under their land further and makes life and growth easier if they systematically did that everyones troubles would be over,but instead they make that illegal too,so the esteries and smaller properties are drying up and hollow underneath so rain just disapears down fast and the top soil blows away.

The governments and local councils here really are position ,power and money driven to the point of a anti natural form of insanity.