 With our current water restrictions in Australia and particularly Western Australia, I would ask, are our Industry leaders of today equal to the tasks at hand as was the case in the late 1800 in overcoming the obstacles of disease and the required infrastructure. However, unlike the late 1800, we have expertise in communication, abundant resource's, yet with all these recourse's with a population a little over 20 million people, why is it we have run out, or nearly run out of water. The weather, if we had a population of 80 million people with above average replenishing rainfall, would we still have enough water?
While it is not widely appreciated the Water Corporations and their associated utilities were created and formed by prominent Master Plumbers around Australia in the late 1800. An infrastructure that has resulted in immeasurable savings to Australia and to my knowledge an intact unity in the delivering of a service that was not duplicated anywhere else in the World. These Master Plumbers created The Water Corporations for the delivering of services, the highly trained individuals governed by a licensing body. The evaluation and testing of products which enabled only "tested and approved products".  In short, a system that was unparalleled in technical expertise that represented "a state of the art" in the late 1800 and which remains relatively intact today, only today The Master Plumber or those knowledgable in the required arts are no longer at the helm. The fact that our plumbing is standardised right around Australia, which is not the case in the United States, or the majority of countries that I have visited, represents an unparalleled accomplishment. In my opinion the Americans are sadly lacking the expertise in standardisation and quality in general. Yet, our present administrators appear to be lack less in their knowledge of what has been achieved in this country by Plumbers since the 1800's.
In a recent lecture held by The Water Corporation of Western Australia held at the University of Western Australia in Perth, entitled "Our Drying Climate". At this lecture were produced rainfall graphs and past methods of treating potable water. In short a detailed argument of how and why we have been left short of water as a direct result of our lack of replenishing rainfalls, despite extensive advanced planning for the perceived growth in our population. The lecture facilitated by Geraldine Mellet featured Dr Jim Gill, CEO of the Water Corporation of Western Australia, Mr Shaun Cox the Director of Gold Coast Water and Mr Ross Young the Executive Director of the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA).
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