Dear Mr. Forte
I, as the WA spokeswoman representing the Crown, applaud the passage of the Transboundary Water use act. And I also urge you to reconsider your option. As humans have went too much to destroy their environment, especially, with the use of poisons on crops, they had made the most abundant upper water table polluted, and the pollution, by having to drill deeper and deeper, only passes downwards. Not to speak of the vulnerable and complex water and swamp ecosystems needing protection.
However, if you are blind to such pressing environmental issues, then please consider the interests of your country. Without the Act, countries upstream of your rivers could freely divert all water for their use, or pollute the water to be unusable for any purposes, residential or industrial. And water pollution adversely affects lucrative industries, such as real estate in cities built on coasts and riverbanks, tourism, agriculture, as man can pollute a river that much to be unsuitable even for plants and animals, drying out your fields and killing your animals, forcing your country to import food from abroad.
Nowadays, most of the industrial sector is dependent on clean water. Power, metallurgy, construction, metalworking, commerce, mining, food processing ... I could continue the list for hours. And with the advancement in water-cooled computing technologies, even IT is growing increasingly dependent on water. Imagine if all of these industries had went out of your country, because of your irreverence towards pollution. Please, think of your people. With an unemployment level so high, all countries are doomed to fail.