Water is Power.

Australia is facing a water crisis. We have been facing a crisis every summer but this year has somewhat manifested into an Al Gore prediction of catastrophic magnitude - everyone is busy seeking the truth, planning their next Global Warming conference and printing flyers that Aliens are truly out there. I say to them the Aliens are already here, get use to it and start communicating.



The topic as thirst-quenching as warm lemonade to a slug has left everyone a little sour especially the local state premier of SA, Mike Rann. Could the needs of the demographic be wrong, that the focus is to get more water into South Australia, be it recycled or otherwise rather than arguing over whose idea it is in the first place?

The billions of Federal funding dollars over 10 years that has the prospect of alleviating the strain within State coffers should therefore be taken advantage of. One would think that getting ahead of current juvenile and delinquent haggling at state level over the Murray-Darling water route must have its merits and therefore require serious consideration. Then again maybe the price is still too high but for whom you may ask and to which end?

State budget blowouts are at its critical stage in SA, people are loosing jobs to cheaper labour production via our new economies such as China and India, farmers are being strangled by their richer counterparts in the U.S, water restrictions are at level 3, our kids are growing up without proper education, equipped only with a vocabulary of less that 1000 and here we are complaining about who gets control over water allocation?

So in the end what will we choose; the new Casino carpark on State-owned land, more funding to the Festival Centre so they don't have to prostitute themselves to the Casino magnets or another tramline into North Terrace, a pebble-throw from the big doors to the Casino? Maybe we need to work on a vaccine for the Stupid virus since we are obviously afflicted by the dilemma of priorities.

We will never know what the real issues are and maybe we should. At this juncture, a reality show cannot be any worse than watching 2 adults behaving badly. Short of comparing whose manhood is bigger we are in a prickly situation compounded by pricknanimous A vs. pricknanimous B waging war against first rights over Our tee-pee.

In the world of opportunity costs a little pride swallowing should be in order as the driest continent is really in need of a good drink before it shrivels away and die; pee pee aside.