Member

Therefore, because we are going to have to spend so much more money—and the only people who pay for that are the people who actually use the water—I think there are two things we have to do. One is not in this amendment. I do think we have to look at the way that we deal with the payment for water. It has always seemed to me that we should have a basic payment and then a very sharp, rising payment for those who use a great deal of water. I want to protect the family that is using water, but I do not see why they should be penalised by people who are using a great deal more water for swimming pools and the like. I want to see a rather different way of looking at it. I say that only to qualify what I am about to say about this amendment.