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Page 1 1-2-2014 G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B.INDEPENDENTConsultant (Constitutionalist)

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Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria [email protected]

5Cc: Chairman Peter Vogel (And other members of the Board of Directors) GWMWater

[email protected] Ref: 2305224Credit Collect [email protected] 369335

10Ref; 20140201-to EWOV 2004/317 COMPLAINT etc-Re GWMWater - Re 2305224 creditcollect 369335

Supplement 5

Sir,further to my previous correspondences of complaint against GWMWater I like to add the15

following;

the following quotations are merely some of numerous I have downloaded but I view that for themoment those reproduced below ought to give a clear indication that no matter what GWMWatermay profess it is not excluded from providing Safe Drinking Water to customers. As referred20to below reports indicates non-compliance in certain instances and clearly underlines thatcompliance is required.The mere fact that despite the legal requirements of the Water Act 1989and the Safe Dr inkingWater 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 a25considerable disregard by the water supplier to comply with legal provisions and as such unlikelywill it comply with legal requirements unless I view severe penalties are imposed upon a watersupplier that it would make it uneconomical for it to continue to disregard to comply with legalrequirements..30In my view, as with for example Telstra having to pay customers who are not providedappropriate services, water suppliers like GWMWater should be ordered to pay compensation toall and any customer to which it failed to provide Safe Dr inking Water.In my view GWMWater has placed itself above the rule of law and likely so knowing that it getaway with disregarding with compliance of applicable legal provisions.35

THIS MUST STOP!

While GWMWater has continually harassed me and pursued their kind of enforcement of allegedlegal provisions then I view that they now must face themselves the legal consequences of failingfor more than 10 years to comply with the provisions of the Safe Dr inkwater Water Act 200340and the Water Act 1989! Its conduct to involve credit collect a debt collection agency despite myrequest to lay off may underline it had no morals at all and disregard my writings that theconduct doing so caused considerable distress to my (now) 81 year old wife.
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It must be clear from the comments of the debates that there were reported non-compliance andthat it was intended to get water providers to comply with the legal requirements. As suchcontrary to the claims by GWMWater the legislators didnt at all intend to exclude water

providers from providing Safe Drinking Water.In my view this gross dishonest conduct by GWMWater may underline that it simply has no5intention 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.Never should members of the community be left at the perils of an unconscious corporation that10may 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 beclear that GWMWater couldnt care less and refused to alter its non-compliance conduct withlegal requirements and as such drastic action needs to be under taken as to safeguard the health15and wellbeing of the general community.In my view it would be totally irresponsible for the Ombudsman to allow this kind of disregardof 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, recommendationsthe Ombudsman may make to seek to address such ongoing non-compliance for more than 1020years!

I find it astonishing that GWMWater somehow charged me $60 for legal advice where I viewthis underlines it blatant disregard to its own gross incompetence to abide by legal requirementsand seek to so to say give me a financial punishment to seek a legal opinion of a lawyer who25may 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.

Lawyers do not decide the true meaning and application of the law but merely give their30opinion 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 bysolicitors and barristers then 100 sets of lawyers will in the end be proven wrong and 100 sets oflawyers will be proven to be right. If doctors had this 50% precent failure cases in operationsthen they would be called charlatans.35In my view no lawyer would have charged a mere $60 for a complicated case as this and Itherefore take the view that GWMWater merely may have asked a lawyer an opinion withoutgiving all relevant details and as such the opinion it received I view is worthless, and one cannot

blame the lawyer for this.While I am now retired, I used to represented parties, including lawyers, as a Professional40

Advocate and always stressed to them that they do not decide what information may or may notbe 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 winhis cases. And this where his previous barrister and other lawyers had ignored the same, and thenhad lost every case up till then. The opponent lawyers in that case unsuccessfully, as I opposed it,45sought to withdraw their case, after more than 3 years litigation, when I pointed out to her honourthey had filed incorrectly as the legislation had been amended 3 years earlier before themcommenced to institute their case. So much for a law firm litigating at cost of their client foryears unaware of the new legislation. Obviously they lost their case and deserved to do so.


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With GWMWater it persist in its past decision rather to consider what I wrote about and to methis is a very serious matter as many others may capitulate because GWMWater with usinglawyers, etc, tend to get away with their conduct no matter how wrong it might be.

It is very important that a proper consideration is given to all relevant details and for this I5provide below some of the Hansard recordings, so that the true intentions of the legislators canbe considered also.

I was able to obtain a copy of the Hansard as to Ms Pike setting out why the Safe DrinkingWater Billwas introduced and what it sought to achieve. I have highlighted some parts in red10and bolding.http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=jVicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&house=ASSEMBLY&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'+%29QUOTE15

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 Victoriansin a

financially responsible manner. In particular, this government is committed to protecting and

improving the quality of drinkingwaterin Victoria.20

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. 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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I will quote below the Hansard transcript in full and it must be clear that the legislators didntintent at all to leave regional areas subject to the wimps of water authorities but that it wasintended to cover all Victorians.

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The infrastructure agenda for the water industry is enormous and ongoing, including the sewering40

of small towns.

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It also appears to my research that the sewerage of properties also should be appropriatelyaddressed. This, I understand still has notbeen provided for by GWMWater.45

The question therefore must be asked why is it that GWMWater for so long was able to get awaywith a blatant disregard to government policies?
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We are talking about 10 years after the Safe Drinking Water Act 2003 came into force and stillGWMWater disregard to comply with the legal requirements..Obviously the question also should be asked why did the Department of Human Services allowthis to go on and on?5.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 agrand scale and yet the question is why is not water diverted to the Wimmerra-Mallee area10instead 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?.15As the executor of the estate of my wifes late husband Mr Jaroslav Hlavka MIE Aust CP ENG Iunderstand that the only employer he worked with in the Commonwealth of Australia wasMelbourne Water and he promoted the usage of water from aquifers. I then wonder why is this

not used appropriately in the Wimmera-Mallee region?20In Rotterdam (my place of birth) water arrives down rivers that has been used approximately 7times before by humans. The water is due to shipping full or oil and other chemicals and yetalready more than 60 years ago nevertheless could be recycled as safe drinking water. The onlytime the salt taste appeared was when due to low tide of the river sea water was able to flow intothe river system and so into the water management area.25

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QUOTE JENNINGSBut 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

protection of communities from infectious disease and other mass hazards to health,35

through the regulation ofwater and food supplies,through the promotion ofsafeand healthy

behaviours and environments and through preparations made to enable health services to

respond effectively to disasters and other mass casualty events.

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Title Human Services: drinking water quality in Victoria report 2005-06

House COUNCIL

Activity Statements on Reports

Members VOGELS

Date 20 September 2007

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20 September 2007 COUNCIL

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Human Services: drinkingwaterquality in Victoria report 2005-065

Mr VOGELS (Western Victoria)-- I would like to make some comments on the annual report on drinking

waterquality in Victoria for 2005-06. In its foreword the report states:

Victoria's drinkingwaterquality regulatory framework recognises the importance ofsafedrinking

waterto the ongoing social and economic wellbeing of Victorians.Wateris necessary for life, and

clean drinkingwateris necessary to maintain public health. This has been brought into sharp10

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'swatersupplies,

following another winter of below average rainfall.

We talked about the collection of stormwater, the reuse of treated water, the use of groundwater,15

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

opportunity to say whether that is what they really want. We are already hearing concerns expressed20

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.

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Below a quotation from Hansard, albeit it appears to me Mr Vogels didnt seem to be aware of

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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 drinkingwater quality across5

the state.The key objectives of this regulatory framework are to ensure:

wherewateris supplied as drinkingwaterit issafeto drink --

and I fully endorse that --

anywaternot intended to be drinkingwatercannot be mistaken for drinkingwater

water quality information is disclosed to consumers and is open to public accountability.10

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.

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Title Drinking water quality: report 2005-06

House COUNCIL

Activity Statements on Reports

Members KRONBERG

Date 19 April 2007

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2519 April 2007 COUNCIL

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Drinkingwaterquality: report 2005-06

Mrs KRONBERG (Eastern Metropolitan)-- I would like to speak on the Annual Report on DrinkingWater30

Quality in Victoria for the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. The regulatory framework for Victoria's

drinkingwaterquality recognises the importance ofsafedrinkingwaterto the ongoing social and

economic wellbeing of Victorians. Two pieces of legislation detailing this framework are theSafeDrinking

WaterAct 2003, which commenced on 1 July 2004, and theSafeDrinkingWaterRegulations 2005, which
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commenced on 19 July 2005. The report provides a summary of the performance ofwaterbusinesses

against the state's quality standards and also reveals the nature and incidence ofwaterquality events.

We are assured that a risk-based approach to the maintenance of drinkingwaterquality instils a proactive

rather than a reactive management approach in which the risks to drinkingwaterquality are identified and

managed.5

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 non-

compliance with water quality standards. In the reporting period signs of improvement were recorded as

more water localities became compliant with the standards when compared with the period 2004-05.10

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

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