{"id":20656,"date":"2025-07-25T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20656\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:17:12","slug":"sydney-counts-the-costs-of-endless-population-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20656\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney counts the costs of endless population growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither policymakers nor proponents of a Big Australia accept the importance of water in the immigration debate.<\/p>\n<p>A succession of papers has warned that Australia will experience chronic water shortages and escalating water bills as its population rises by millions, driven by chronically high immigration levels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Historical-NOM.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"457\" alt=\"NOM\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0Infrastructure Australia\u2019s 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/infrastructureaustralia.gov.au\/policy-publications\/publications\/files\/Reforming_Urban_Water_Web_version.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">modelling<\/a> forecast that real household water costs will more than quadruple over 50 years due to rapid population growth and climate change, rising from $1,226 in 2017 to $6,000 in 2067 in real terms.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Capture-53.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-963214\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Capture-53.png\" width=\"604\" height=\"389\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Household water bills\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neither policymakers nor proponents of a Big Australia accept the importance of water in the immigration debate. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-20656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}