Desalination and electricity production are very environmental unfriendly. Any attempt to curb the production of any environmental unfriendly industry should be applauded!
With that said ----
Fines! really?! the target are Qatari's? well how does that make any sense?
- Fines are a "when you are caught" policy
- Qatari's afford much larger villas that the average expats with a lot more land insides the walls than expats. Much, much easier to "hide" water abuse.
- there are 4 expats for every Qatari so policing such a law will probably turn up 4 expat culprits for every Qatari culprit despite the stats that say Qatari's use 4 to 5 times as much water as expats.
- Qatari's have "advantages" (deservingly so - this is their country and our income is thanks to them) not available to expats. Thus among the people caught it is more likely that expats will be the ones paying.
if Qatar wanted to make a difference then there would be laws like -
ALL buildings have to have meters
ALL residents (local and expat) must pay for utilities
ALL current buildings without meters need to be converted within 3 years or fined in the 100+K range per month afterwards.
At that point a fine is actually workable. Something many do not know (because it is unlikely you have EVER used this much water) Karhama already have a tiered billing. I learnt this when my water pump broke while I was away for 2 days. Once you cross a certain amount of usage you pay higher rates. They can easily intorduce another tier. Once you cross the 3rd tier 10000 QR automatically.
Desalination and electricity production are very environmental unfriendly. Any attempt to curb the production of any environmental unfriendly industry should be applauded!
With that said ----
Fines! really?! the target are Qatari's? well how does that make any sense?
- Fines are a "when you are caught" policy
- Qatari's afford much larger villas that the average expats with a lot more land insides the walls than expats. Much, much easier to "hide" water abuse.
- there are 4 expats for every Qatari so policing such a law will probably turn up 4 expat culprits for every Qatari culprit despite the stats that say Qatari's use 4 to 5 times as much water as expats.
- Qatari's have "advantages" (deservingly so - this is their country and our income is thanks to them) not available to expats. Thus among the people caught it is more likely that expats will be the ones paying.
if Qatar wanted to make a difference then there would be laws like -
ALL buildings have to have meters
ALL residents (local and expat) must pay for utilities
ALL current buildings without meters need to be converted within 3 years or fined in the 100+K range per month afterwards.
At that point a fine is actually workable. Something many do not know (because it is unlikely you have EVER used this much water) Karhama already have a tiered billing. I learnt this when my water pump broke while I was away for 2 days. Once you cross a certain amount of usage you pay higher rates. They can easily intorduce another tier. Once you cross the 3rd tier 10000 QR automatically.