Given up complaining

I can understand why "water complaints" are down one third in the past year.

It is not because we are getting less dirty water but because the majority of residents on the Peninsula have simply given up complaining.

I have lived on the Peninsula since July 2005 and in the last six months, hardly a week has gone by that we haven't had dirty water.

The problem seems to be worse on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

When I phoned the council about this the receptionist on one occasion said she thought the residents were extremely long-suffering.

On several other occasions, I have been assured that someone will get back to me but, as the neighbours have told me "no-one ever does".

Instead two packets of laundry powder/bleach are left on my front doorstep every time I complain.

The majority of my neighbours have also given up complaining.

I have lived in Brisbane, Sydney, Darwin and Adelaide and I have never experienced anything like the situation here.

As Marie Andrews so rightly said: "We are not living in a Third World country and this is totally unacceptable" but what do we do about it?

Helen McConaghy Woy Woy