'Water Underground'

Water still a potential graveyard for politicians it seems.

This post content through from an ex-Lincolnite, promoting a song by Anthonie Tonnon...

"We're used to vocal (often artistic in one way or another) individuals like Sam Mahon who have been highly critical of the removal of the democratically elected Councillors in 2010 and the associated 'grab' for Canterbury's water. In recent times there has emerged another artist who has joined the fray  - though from a different perspective. Former Dunedin singer-songwriter Anthonie Tonnon, who I'd argue is also a great storyteller having seen him play live recently, has written and sung about arguably the core the government's 2010 decision Canterbury's groundwater, the Water Underground..."

I'm still in awe 

at how you pulled it all off 

and driving through the drylands 

seeing irrigators installed 

I think about the coup 

you turned the rules on themselves 

you engineered that miracle 

to free the water underground 

they said you'd never take the council down 

but you just found your way around 

called it a national crisis 

you were in bed with the press 

you understood from experience how to 

make it fast and hard to digest oh you 

left them dumbfounded, unemployable 

chose their replacements yourself 

all their science from the cities couldn't keep you 

from the water underground 

they said you'd never take the council down 

but you just found your way around 

nine years out of power 

you had time to think it out 

she was one of those friends 

followed the rabbit hole to its end 

and you knew what it meant 

to get involved 

and the industry couldn't help you 

no, none of the farmers who owed you 

they let you fight in that pit alone 

but with elections still on hold 

with the cattle turning up by the truckload 

you can hear the drills working now 

on that water underground