No plan for water price hike: Economics minister

Phew. There's a relief. Just imagine if everyone were compelled to pay true value for water, electricity and fuel instead of massively-subsided rates. We'd have to endure restaurants and department stores with above-freezing air-conditioning; farmers would have to adopt state-of-the-art water conservation techniques; businesses would have to upgrade their 50-year-old management methods; we might even be able to breathe without a lung filter. How awful.