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Sir, further to my previous correspondences of complaint against GWMWater I like to add the following; the following quotations are merely some of numerous I have downloaded but I view that for the moment those reproduced below ought to give a clear indication that no matter what GWMWater may profess it is not excluded from providing Safe Drinking Water to customers. As referred to below reports indicates non-compliance in certain instances and clearly underlines that compliance is required. The mere fact that despite the legal requirements of the Water Act 1989 and the Safe Drinking Water Act 2003, in 2014, there is still an ongoing non-compliance and purported by GWMWater that it is not required to comply with Victorian Government Standards may underline there is a considerable disregard by the water supplier to comply with legal provisions and as such unlikely will it comply with legal requirements unless I view severe penalties are imposed upon a water supplier that it would make it uneconomical for it to continue to disregard to comply with legal requirements. . In my view, as with for example Telstra having to pay customers who are not provided appropriate services, water suppliers like GWMWater should be ordered to pay compensation to all and any customer to which it failed to provide Safe Drinking Water. In my view GWMWater has placed itself above the rule of law and likely so knowing that it get away with disregarding with compliance of applicable legal provisions. THIS MUST STOP!

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While GWMWater has continually harassed me and pursued their kind of enforcement of alleged legal provisions then I view that they now must face themselves the legal consequences of failing 40 for more than 10 years to comply with the provisions of the Safe Drinkwater Water Act 2003 and the Water Act 1989! Its conduct to involve credit collect a debt collection agency despite my request to lay off may underline it had no morals at all and disregard my writings that the conduct doing so caused considerable distress to my (now) 81 year old wife.

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Page 2 It must be clear from the comments of the debates that there were reported non-compliance and that it was intended to get water providers to comply with the legal requirements. As such contrary to the claims by GWMWater the legislators didnt at all intend to exclude water providers from providing Safe Drinking Water. 5 In my view this gross dishonest conduct by GWMWater may underline that it simply has no intention to provide Safe Drinking Water as required by law. Hence severe financial penalties that make it uneconomical to not comply with legal requirement is more the likely option as well as terms of imprisonment of directors who allow a water supplier to continually disregard legal provisions at risk of public health, etc. 10 Never should members of the community be left at the perils of an unconscious corporation that may be more interested in its profit margin than to comply with legal requirements.

I have been pursuing this matter for some 20 years, in a softly softly approach but it must be clear that GWMWater couldnt care less and refused to alter its non-compliance conduct with 15 legal requirements and as such drastic action needs to be under taken as to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the general community. In my view it would be totally irresponsible for the Ombudsman to allow this kind of disregard of legal provisions to be left un addressed. Parliament is entitled to expect the Ombudsman to file a report with the Parliament that sets out all relevant issues and what, if any, recommendations 20 the Ombudsman may make to seek to address such ongoing non-compliance for more than 10 years! I find it astonishing that GWMWater somehow charged me $60 for legal advice where I view this underlines it blatant disregard to its own gross incompetence to abide by legal requirements 25 and seek to so to say give me a financial punishment to seek a legal opinion of a lawyer who may know and understand next to nothing of the case. Lawyers are limited to what their clients provide as information and therefore if a client omits critical information the legal advice given by the lawyer may not be the same as if the omitted details were provided. 30 Lawyers do not decide the true meaning and application of the law but merely give their opinion which may be right or wrong as to the true meaning and application of the law. Where there are 100 cases in dispute before the courts and each party has legal representation by solicitors and barristers then 100 sets of lawyers will in the end be proven wrong and 100 sets of lawyers will be proven to be right. If doctors had this 50% precent failure cases in operations 35 then they would be called charlatans. In my view no lawyer would have charged a mere $60 for a complicated case as this and I therefore take the view that GWMWater merely may have asked a lawyer an opinion without giving all relevant details and as such the opinion it received I view is worthless, and one cannot blame the lawyer for this. 40 While I am now retired, I used to represented parties, including lawyers, as a Professional Advocate and always stressed to them that they do not decide what information may or may not be relevant for me to consider as every little bit of information has to be assessed by me. Indeed, in the Colosimo case what appeared to Mr Colosimo being irrelevant was in fact critical to win his cases. And this where his previous barrister and other lawyers had ignored the same, and then 45 had lost every case up till then. The opponent lawyers in that case unsuccessfully, as I opposed it, sought to withdraw their case, after more than 3 years litigation, when I pointed out to her honour they had filed incorrectly as the legislation had been amended 3 years earlier before them commenced to institute their case. So much for a law firm litigating at cost of their client for years unaware of the new legislation. Obviously they lost their case and deserved to do so.
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Page 3 With GWMWater it persist in its past decision rather to consider what I wrote about and to me this is a very serious matter as many others may capitulate because GWMWater with using lawyers, etc, tend to get away with their conduct no matter how wrong it might be.

5 It is very important that a proper consideration is given to all relevant details and for this I provide below some of the Hansard recordings, so that the true intentions of the legislators can be considered also. I was able to obtain a copy of the Hansard as to Ms Pike setting out why the Safe Drinking 10 Water Bill was introduced and what it sought to achieve. I have highlighted some parts in red and bolding.
http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&house=ASSE MBLY&speech=22882&activity=Second+Reading&title=SAFE+DRINKING+WATER+BILL&date1=10&date2= April&date3=2003&query=true%0a%09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE Ms PIKE (Minister for Health) - I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Bracks Labor government is committed to improving services to all Victorians in a financially responsible manner. In particular, this government is committed to protecting and

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improving the quality of drinking water in Victoria. END QUOTE http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&house=ASSE MBLY&speech=22882&activity=Second+Reading&title=SAFE+DRINKING+WATER+BILL&date1=10&date2= April&date3=2003&query=true%0a%09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE . This will facilitate sustainable and value-adding business, tourism, cleaner agriculture and quality of life opportunities in Victoria, especially in regional areas of the state.

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30 END QUOTE I will quote below the Hansard transcript in full and it must be clear that the legislators didnt intent at all to leave regional areas subject to the wimps of water authorities but that it was intended to cover all Victorians. 35
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It also appears to my research that the sewerage of properties also should be appropriately 45 addressed. This, I understand still has not been provided for by GWMWater. The question therefore must be asked why is it that GWMWater for so long was able to get away with a blatant disregard to government policies?
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Page 4 We are talking about 10 years after the Safe Drinking Water Act 2003 came into force and still GWMWater disregard to comply with the legal requirements. . Obviously the question also should be asked why did the Department of Human Services allow 5 this to go on and on? . What kind of check and balances are there in place, really? . The foillowing Hansard quotation may give an indication how water is wasted in Melbourne at a 10 grand scale and yet the question is why is not water diverted to the Wimmerra-Mallee area instead of used on nature strips, etc? . Why not implement an environmental plan that householders ought to replace old plants with plants that sustain low water usage? 15 . As the executor of the estate of my wifes late husband Mr Jaroslav Hlavka MIE Aust CP ENG I understand that the only employer he worked with in the Commonwealth of Australia was Melbourne Water and he promoted the usage of water from aquifers. I then wonder why is this not used appropriately in the Wimmera-Mallee region? 20 In Rotterdam (my place of birth) water arrives down rivers that has been used approximately 7 times before by humans. The water is due to shipping full or oil and other chemicals and yet already more than 60 years ago nevertheless could be recycled as safe drinking water. The only time the salt taste appeared was when due to low tide of the river sea water was able to flow into 25 the river system and so into the water management area. http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&house=COU NCIL&speech=68022&activity=Second+Reading&title=PUBLIC+HEALTH+AND+WELLBEING+BILL&date1= 26&date2=June&date3=2008&query=true%0a%09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'wat er'+%29 QUOTE JENNINGS But there is another dimension to the operation of Victoria's health system which relates to the ways in which the health of the population as a whole is protected and nurtured -- the investments which governments make in what is broadly called 'public health' through the systematic

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Page 5 Title House Activity Human Services: drinking water quality in Victoria report 2005-06 COUNCIL Statements on Reports

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Human Services: drinking water quality in Victoria report 2005-06 Mr VOGELS (Western Victoria) -- I would like to make some comments on the annual report on drinking water quality in Victoria for 2005-06. In its foreword the report states: Victoria's drinking water quality regulatory framework recognises the importance of safe drinking water to the ongoing social and economic wellbeing of Victorians. Water is necessary for life, and

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clean drinking water is necessary to maintain public health. This has been brought into sharp focus by the ongoing drought conditions that much of Victoria has experienced during the past several years. Yesterday in this house we spent 4 hours debating the concerns we all share for Victoria's water supplies, following another winter of below average rainfall.

15 We talked about the collection of stormwater, the reuse of treated water, the use of groundwater,
desalination plants and any other water source options, which leads me to question the quality of drinking water. We saw the furore in Queensland when the then Premier Beattie tried to introduce the use of recycled water into, I think, the Toowoomba water system. Presently many communities are outraged that they will have fluoride added to their water supplies without a local plebiscite being held to give them an

20 opportunity to say whether that is what they really want. We are already hearing concerns expressed
about desalinated water and whether it will pose problems when added to our present water supplies. I often wonder how the cost of providing world best quality drinking water stacks up. I fully agree that the water we drink needs to be top quality. END QUOTE

25 Below a quotation from Hansard, albeit it appears to me Mr Vogels didnt seem to be aware of GWMWater not providing suitable and safe drink water as required by the legislation! 30
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Page 6 Page 2858 The foreword in the report says: The act and regulations provide a comprehensive regulatory framework that encompasses a

catchment-to-tap, risk-based approach to the management of drinking water quality across the state. The key objectives of this regulatory framework are to ensure: where water is supplied as drinking water it is safe to drink -and I fully endorse that -any water not intended to be drinking water cannot be mistaken for drinking water

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water quality information is disclosed to consumers and is open to public accountability. I commend the report to the house and congratulate our water authorities right across the state for their handling of complaints. There are always complaints out there because things can happen, but they have been dealt with expeditiously. END QUOTE

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30 Mrs KRONBERG (Eastern Metropolitan) -- I would like to speak on the Annual Report on Drinking Water
Quality in Victoria for the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. The regulatory framework for Victoria's drinking water quality recognises the importance of safe drinking water to the ongoing social and economic wellbeing of Victorians. Two pieces of legislation detailing this framework are the Safe Drinking Water Act 2003, which commenced on 1 July 2004, and the Safe Drinking Water Regulations 2005, which 1-2-2014 G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B. INDEPENDENT Consultant (Constitutionalist) INSPECTOR-RIKATI about the BLACK HOLE in the CONSTITUTION-DVD A 1st edition limited special numbered book on Data DVD ISBN 978-0-9803712-6-0 PLEASE NOTE: You may order books in the INSPECTOR-RIKATI series by making a reservation, by fax 0011-61-3-94577209 or E-mail INSPECTOR-RIKATI@schorel-hlavka.com See also www.schorel-hlavka.com Page 6

Page 7 commenced on 19 July 2005. The report provides a summary of the performance of water businesses against the state's quality standards and also reveals the nature and incidence of water quality events. We are assured that a risk-based approach to the maintenance of drinking water quality instils a proactive rather than a reactive management approach in which the risks to drinking water quality are identified and

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We are further assured that although strong working relationships with water businesses have been consolidated and extended, there are areas where further improvements need to be made. It would not come as a surprise to members to learn that regional Victoria suffers most when it comes to noncompliance with water quality standards. In the reporting period signs of improvement were recorded as

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However, 35 reports of non-compliance led to water businesses needing to record an undertaking as to what course of action they were prepared to take to rectify water quality issues. The report reduces the overall impact of water quality failures by averaging the water quality standard improvement rates with the reported 100 per cent compliance in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Therefore across the state the

15 E.coli water quality standard improved from 95 to 95.5 per cent and the turbidity standard improved from
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20 It is important to scrutinise the performance of each of the 21 water suppliers that provide
drinking water to a total of 493 localities across Victoria. The percentage of water localities that were compliant with water quality standards during 2005-06 as expressed by the parameters E. coli, turbidity, aluminium, trihalomethanes, trichloroacetic acid, bromate and formaldehyde remain problematic. Water localities reported as being noncompliant for E.coli for both 2004-05 and 2005-06 include Clunes, Sea

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We are now in 2014 and GWMWater still hasnt complied with the Victorian Government standards and I view only severe financial penalties may address this issue and also term of 30 imprisonment for directors of water suppliers who consistently fail to ensure appropriate action is under taken to ensure Safe Drinking Water is provided to all customers. It must be kept in mind that if suddenly people end up killed in high numbers as result of the unsafe water now supplied then people so to say want to see heads rolling of those who failed to act when they should have acted. 35
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Page 8 Title House Activity Members LOVELL Date Page 20 December 2006 51 WATER: MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

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WATER: MANAGEMENT Ms LOVELL (Northern Victoria) -- I move: That this house condemns the state government's mismanagement of Victoria's water resources and in particular its failure to provide water certainty and to take adequate action on supply, recycling and infrastructure.

10 The supply of water is the most basic responsibility that a state government undertakes. Water is
the most basic need for human survival and its supply is fundamental in government responsibilities. The Bracks government has failed in its most basic responsibility, leaving many Victorians with little or no water. Victoria has a water crisis. Many Victorian towns are on the most severe water restrictions, and

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25 for 2006-07 that is outlined in budget paper 1 we see that during the same period in which the
government collected $2.2 billion in taxes, levies and dividends from water authorities it reinvested only $141 646 million of that $2.2 billion into water infrastructure -- that is, less than 6 per cent of the taxes, levies and dividends collected is being reinvested into improving water infrastructure in this state.

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Page 9 http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&speech=5528 1&activity=NULL&title=WATER:+MANAGEMENT&date1=20&date2=December&date3=2006&query=true%0a %09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE Ms LOVEL The survey also asked readers whether they would drink recycled water. Fifty-two per cent actually said yes. I do not know whether we are quite ready for people to be drinking recycled water. There is no doubt that that will have to be reconsidered in the future. At this stage Victorians are probably not quite ready to use recycled water as drinking water, but certainly it should be used in industry and for other uses. The survey also asked readers whether they would eat produce grown with recycled water. Eighty-eight per cent of Victorians answered yes, they would -END QUOTE

And 15 http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&speech=5528
1&activity=NULL&title=WATER:+MANAGEMENT&date1=20&date2=December&date3=2006&query=true%0a %09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE Mr VINEY . We are one community in Victoria, and we have to work together and collectively on this issue,

20 and Gippsland, which I am proud to represent, is as dependent on Melbourne as Melbourne is on

it. It is a co-dependency. Gippsland needs Melbourne's markets, and Melbourne needs Gippsland's produce -- it is pretty simple -- and we have to deal with our limited water resources, particularly at this time, in a sensible and rational way. It is incumbent upon all people in politics to deal with this in a rational and sensible way.

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1&activity=NULL&title=WATER:+MANAGEMENT&date1=20&date2=December&date3=2006&query=true%0a %09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE Mr DRUM -- Thank you. I want to talk about Coliban Water and the politicising of water authorities. As we know, since the Bracks Labor government has been in power in this state water authorities have had to pay $1.8 billion to it in water dividends. The government has been making a nice, tidy profit of $1.8 billion from the sale of water during its term in office, yet it wants to make a song and dance about spending $167 million on the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline. You have to get a reasonable handle on these figures, but as the government has $1.8 billion it obviously sees the water authorities as very much an arm of the government, that they are government water authorities. END QUOTE

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Page 10 I note with interest that there have been two members of the Labor Party who have spoken on this motion -- the first speaker was Mr Viney. Australia has met the protocols of the Kyoto agreement without actually signing the document. We are meeting our targets. Members have heard others speak about the

5 Wimmera-Mallee pipeline. I know a little bit about the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline because it is in my
region. I have been to two openings of the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline in the last six years. The first opening was four or five years ago. It was conducted by John Thwaites, a minister in the other place, and John Anderson, the former Deputy Prime Minister. They announced a joint funding of something like $162 million for the start

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I went to another opening of the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline before the state election when Mr Bracks promised to start another section -- the southern section -- of the pipeline. The cost has blown out from $162 million to $510 million. Last week there was an announcement that the first 20 kilometres has been constructed -- but that is after seven years! They said the cost would be

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government and the federal government. We now hear that it will cost $750 million. Neither the federal government nor the state government has said it will provide $250 million. They are sitting on $162 million, so the poor old farmer will have to pick up the tab. There is talk about a 90 per cent saving in water, which is now being lost through evaporation,

20 drainage, seepage, leakage or whatever. I have been told by Grampians Water that there would be
no 90 per cent saving when the pipeline is built, that the 90 per cent was for the whole WimmeraMallee area. The northern part has been constructed under the Kennett government -- finished and delivered, on time and on budget. The major seepage and leakage was in the northern Mallee area of the pipeline because the soil is sandy.

25 It is now being said that savings in the southern Mallee will be only about 40 per cent. I am not
saying that that is not an enormous amount of saving, but if it is only a 40 per cent saving, where will the extra water come from? The figures are wrong. The Wimmera-Mallee pipeline is an absolute disgrace. People forget that we started with a Labor government in 1982 during the Cain and Kirner era and that now, after the recent election, the completion date will be taken out to

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Page 11 And, with a callous sneer, I think: I tell you what, that's extraordinarily expensive. The Premier said that on 26 October, in the midst of the election campaign. But what the Premier clearly did not know was that on 12 October, after the Liberal Party

5 announcement on 8 October that it would introduce third-pipe technology, City West Water wrote
to large developers on the western side of the city, and I will quote from that letter: To whom it may concern: Re: introduction of new mandatory requirements for dual-pipe water systems I am writing to advise you of two key new developments in state government legislation

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related to dual-pipe water systems in new estates. This new legislation states that it is now mandatory for: developers to install dual-pipe systems in new residential developments where required by the relevant water authority customers to connect to dual-pipe systems where provided when seeking connection to a

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water supply These changes reflect the government's initiatives to conserve our precious drinking water supply and increase the use of safe and alternative water resource. A dual-pipe water system consists of a drinking water and recycled water supply to each property. Dual water supply areas are expanding within the new growth areas of

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Melbourne. And it continues. But, interestingly, do you know what date the mandated dual pipe that the Premier sneered at on Channel 10 came into effect? 1 December 2006! END QUOTE

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35 water our lawns and median strips. That is an enormous waste of water.
You only have to drive around Melbourne in the early hours of the morning - luckily we do not have too many late night sittings here - as you go home from this place or as you come in early in the morning to see sprinklers turned on on the median strips with water running down the roads and into the drains. It is an enormous waste of valuable water.

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Page 12 The community has been isolated from the impact of its water usage. A classic example is that when you live in the country and survive on water from a tank you know that when you turn the tap on the water comes out of your tank. If it does not rain, the tank will not be refilled. Then you will run out of water. As soon as we put ourselves on reticulated systems we end up with high-pressure hot and cold water, but

5 the community is not exposed to the impact. We need to create an environment where the community
knows that every time a tap is turned on, it has an impact on the Gippsland Lakes, the Thomson River and on the Yarra River. Not only that, but the overuse of water has an impact downstream when we stick it into treatment plants and pump it out through the ocean outfall at Gunnamatta. That has an additional impact.

10 We need to get the message home about irresponsible use of water. We have not done a good enough
job on that, and until the government creates a link between water usage and the environmental effects of that usage we will not solve the problem. One example used in East Gippsland recently was in relation to the extremely dry conditions. The Mitchell River irrigators wanted a total ban. That would be to the large financial detriment of farming communities

15 in Bairnsdale, yet at the same time the town water supply was being used to do exactly what it is used for
in Melbourne - to irrigate all the town's median strips. That does not send a very good message, and there is inequity between the water use in rural areas and the water use in urban areas. Everyone has to share the pain of water reform. The other issue which has been around for a long time is the Australian water dream. I am sure all

20 members have seen that, with the engineers saying that all we need to do to solve the problem of water
usage in the Murray-Darling Basin is to divert the Clarence River inland. There was also a proposal to divert all the northern rivers to flow down into the Murray-Darling Basin. Another suggestion that was of interest to me was to divert one of the major rivers in New Guinea, pipe it under Torres Strait and into northern Queensland.

25 That really highlights the fact that inter-basin transfers of water are one of the most inequitable and
damaging things that can be done. We have seen it with the Snowy River. You basically create a problem on each side - a problem with a lack of water on one side and another problem on the other side with overuse of water and too much water. Will we in future only be able to see Murray cod through picture books?

30 Will we only be able to see healthy rivers through old photographs?

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10 Mr HELPER (Ripon) - I grieve this morning for those Victorians who want a competent and policy-driven
opposition in this state. I grieve particularly for the rural and regional Victorians who demand an effective and principled opposition in relation to the sustainable management of water as it affects agriculture, small towns and our environment. Fortunately all Victorians have a government driven by principle and policy when it comes to water issues, among other things.

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25 The legislation includes the Constitution (Water Authorities) Bill, the Water (Victorian Water Trust
Advisory Council) Bill, the Safe Drinking Water Bill and the Murray-Darling Basin (Amendment) Bill. They are four bills that in some way - some more than others - touch on the vitally important area of water in our communities. And as far as it concerns me and my constituency, that particularly includes the impact of water

30 issues on small communities, agriculture and rural and regional development in the general
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Page 14 http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&speech=2281 6&activity=Grievances&title=Water:+sustainable+management&date1=9&date2=April&date3=2003&query=true% 0a%09and+%28+data+contains+'safe'%0a%09and+data+contains+'water'+%29 QUOTE The infrastructure agenda for the water industry is enormous and ongoing, including the sewering of small towns. Upon its election in 1999 the government introduced a degree of fairness that was not evident in the previous government's arrangements for providing sewerage to small towns. Many people were acutely embarrassed about their financial incapacity to meet the obligations of connecting

10 sewers to small towns. This government has capped that commitment to $800, and people who
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SAFE DRINKING WATER BILL Second reading Ms PIKE (Minister for Health) - I move: That this bill be now read a second time.

20 The Bracks Labor government is committed to improving services to all Victorians in a financially
responsible manner. In particular, this government is committed to protecting and improving the quality of drinking water in Victoria. Access to a reliable supply of good quality drinking water is fundamental to community health and wellbeing, and is essential for the development of many sustainable value-adding industries in

25 regional Victoria, particularly the food and tourism industries.

Through this bill, this government is proposing a comprehensive, statewide regulatory framework that addresses these matters. We believe that this bill significantly protects and enhances the quality of drinking water supplies in Victoria in a sustainable manner, therefore fulfilling a major policy commitment of this

30 government, as encapsulated in our Growing Victoria Together policy.

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Page 16 Scope and philosophy of the bill The regulatory framework will cover drinking water supplied by the state-owned water businesses around Victoria, principally the 3 Melbourne metropolitan water companies, the 15 regionally based urban water authorities and Melbourne Water.

5 The regulatory framework will also, for the first time, cover drinking water supplies that are provided at
alpine resorts and supplies managed by Parks Victoria. Rural water authorities are also covered in relation to water destined for drinking in communities around Victoria. The bill also allows for the formal identification and regulation of water that, although not intended

10 for drinking, is supplied in a manner that may lead to it being confused with drinking water and
inadvertently consumed by the public. The bill will not apply to the supply of packaged water or water for irrigation. The bill embraces the total water cycle philosophy through adoption of a sound and proactive catchment-to-tap approach to drinking water quality management. Further, environmental

15 improvement is likely to result from closer coordination between water suppliers, catchment management
authorities and local government. The bill addresses concerns raised in the past by the Auditor-General and the Office of the RegulatorGeneral that, within the existing Victorian water quality regulatory framework, responsibilities for managing risks are unclear in a number of areas.

20 The bill provides the required clarification and also clarifies roles and responsibilities among
stakeholders for the management of incidents of contamination of drinking water in Victoria. The framework is consistent with the Council of Australian Governments national competition policy principles for institutional reform. Its implementation will also meet Victoria's commitments under the Council of Australian Governments water reform agreement.

25 The framework has been developed over recent years with considerable public, water industry and
stakeholder consultation. There were three consultation stages during 2000, 2001 and 2002 covering the public, industry and key government stakeholders. In summary, the legislative proposal once enacted will place Victoria in a leading position in Australia in the regulation and provision of safe drinking water supplies.

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Page 982 Principal objectives The bill is designed to require water suppliers to develop and implement an integrated risk

35 management framework for drinking water quality, comply with standards for water quality,
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Page 17 communicate effectively with all stakeholders and publicly disclose relevant water quality information. The proposed Safe Drinking Water Act will describe the regulatory regime and contain key obligations relating to risk management and public disclosure. Regulations to be made under the

5 act will include necessary standards for water quality and associated monitoring requirements.
The principal objectives of this bill are to: protect public health in Victoria in relation to drinking water supplies; create a consistent statewide regulatory framework for drinking water quality; establish and implement comprehensive risk management strategies for drinking water

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quality that covers the overall delivery chain from the catchment to consumer supplies; give Victorians access to objective information about the quality of drinking water that they receive; provide communities with the opportunity to establish local non-health-related standards for drinking water quality;

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ensure that proposed drinking water standards are subjected to a rigorous benefit-cost analysis; provide clarity of roles of the various parties who may be involved in the management of incidents concerning drinking water. Key aspects of the bill I will now turn to the key aspects of the bill.

20 Part 1 of the bill contains definitions and outlines the purpose and application of the act.
Part 2 of the bill obliges each water supplier to develop and implement drinking water risk management plans and systems to cover risks and hazards that may affect the quality of drinking water, from the catchment to the tap. Water storage managers will also be required to have in place and implement risk management plans. These plans will be required to be independently

25 audited.
Part 3 of the bill obliges the water suppliers to supply drinking water that meets a set of water quality standards, generally measured at or near the point at which the drinking water is supplied to consumers. The standards will cover health-related criteria, such as microbiological and chemical safety, as well as aesthetic criteria, such as taste, odour and discolouration.

30 Part 3 also provides flexibility for specific local water quality standards to be established through
community consultation, provided any risks to public health have been adequately addressed. The water supplier will also be required to report to consumers on the quality of water supplied and disclose instances where the quality of water may, for whatever reason or however briefly, be suspected of posing a risk to public health.

35 Part 3 also requires that the drinking water quality standards and the more detailed aspects of the
risk management requirements will be set through regulations recommended by the Minister for

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Page 18 Health, after consultation with the Minister for Water, the Minister for Environment and the Treasurer. This will ensure that standards are set in a transparent and appropriate manner, with the community benefits and costs of particular standards clearly identified. The intention is to develop standards

5 based on the latest version of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines, which is published under
the auspices of the National Health and Medical Research Council, whilst ensuring that the standards are relevant to the needs of Victorians. Part 4 of the bill sets out the powers and functions of the Secretary to the Department of Human Services in relation to drinking water quality.

10 In particular, this will include powers to enter into undertakings with water suppliers to achieve specified
requirements and powers to request information. Part 4 of the bill establishes the mechanism for the exercise of these powers. Part 4 of the bill also grants the secretary the power to provide directions to a water supplier or a water storage manager if the secretary believes that drinking water may pose a risk to public

15 health. Authorised officers may enter water supply premises if the secretary believes that drinking
water may pose an immediate risk to public health. The bill requires the department to report annually to the Minister for Health on the status of drinking water quality in Victoria. It also requires the minister to ensure that a copy of the report is laid before each house of Parliament.

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Page 983 Part 4 of the bill also sets out the mechanism by which the cost of regulating the water suppliers can be funded by the water supply industry in Victoria.

25 The total levy will be imposed having regard to the costs that are incurred or are likely to be incurred by
the secretary to the department in relation to additional activities carried out under the new regulatory framework. The levy is estimated in total at less than $1.5 million per annum. The bill will complement the Food Act 1984, which contains certain relevant offences and emergency management powers. In particular, it will continue to be an offence under the Food Act for a water

30 supplier to sell unsafe drinking water.

Part 5 of the bill empowers the Governor in Council to make the necessary regulations. This part also provides penalties for the provision of false and misleading information to the secretary or to the public. Part 6 of the bill proposes consequential amendments to existing legislation that clarifies the regulatory

35 requirements placed on water suppliers. The bill will repeal several water-related provisions of the
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Page 19 from liability for any action taken in connection with the treatment of water in accordance with the Water Act or any other act. Implementation and operation The proposed regulatory framework allows a staged implementation of its requirements, to enable water

5 suppliers a reasonable time to comply. The act will come into force on 1 July 2004.
In recent years the quality of drinking water in Victoria has significantly improved. Nevertheless, there is still a way to go in some areas, and undertakings from water suppliers will provide a mechanism through which the implementation of any new works required to meet the standards can be achieved in stages, while all residual risks are adequately managed.

10 It is anticipated that new capital and operating costs arising from the framework can be managed as part
of the overall business improvement process undertaken by water suppliers in Victoria. The Minister for Health will also initiate a review of the size and scope of the regulatory activities of the department after the initial two years of full operation, to determine the ongoing resources required to meet the new functions under the act.

15 Benefits to the community

The benefits to the community of the proposed framework are provided through the increasing use of risk assessment and management with regard to drinking water supplies, improved confidence and assurance in the delivery of good quality drinking water, improved emphasis on catchment-to-tap management and improved transparency of processes.

20 This is expected to result in a reduced frequency of incidents of contamination of drinking water

and reduced severity of such incidents when they do occur. Closing remarks As I stated at the outset, regulatory reform of this nature and the provision of good quality drinking water can be expected to enhance the overall business competitiveness of the Victorian economy. This will

25 facilitate sustainable and value-adding business, tourism, cleaner agriculture and quality of life
opportunities in Victoria, especially in regional areas of the state. In closing, I would like to thank the many people who have contributed to the development of this bill, in particular through the extensive public and industry consultation. I believe that the bill strikes the right balance between quality of drinking water supplies and

30 affordability of services.
I am confident that this legislation, and the bill which I currently put before you, enhances the quality and safety of drinking water supplies for Victorians and therefore fulfils a major policy commitment of this government. I commend this bill to the house. 1-2-2014 G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B. INDEPENDENT Consultant (Constitutionalist) INSPECTOR-RIKATI about the BLACK HOLE in the CONSTITUTION-DVD A 1st edition limited special numbered book on Data DVD ISBN 978-0-9803712-6-0 PLEASE NOTE: You may order books in the INSPECTOR-RIKATI series by making a reservation, by fax 0011-61-3-94577209 or E-mail INSPECTOR-RIKATI@schorel-hlavka.com See also www.schorel-hlavka.com Page 19

Page 20 Debate adjourned on motion of Mrs SHARDEY (Caulfield). Debate adjourned until Thursday, 24 April. Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 END QUOTE (NOTE: RED COLOUR AND BOLDING WAS ADDED)

I urge the Ombudsman not to under estimate the importance of this matter to all Victorians, in particular so those in regional areas. . 10 Due to my wifes ongoing health problems I have still been very limited to attend to many issues and this correspondence is not intended and neither must be perceived to refer to all issues/details. Awaiting your response, G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B. (Friends call me Gerrit)

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