Are we to accept this as permanent?

I don't know about you, but having just survived another 41'C day in Adelaide, and three years of water restrictions, we continue to watch our city die. Are we are expected to accept our dying gardens as part of living in Adelaide? Is this the best we can do?
I suspect that people now see no hope with government fixing things, so that we can return to a city of greenery, so I suspect that people are just going to start to break the law. The 'water police' are going to be kept busy indeed.
Our once "famous" parklands now resemble a desert with plenty of trees waiting for the chainsaw to make firewood for the coming winter. Have you had a look lately at South Terrace and Greenill Road for example? Many of the newly planted trees on North Terrace have died too.
Why has this been allowed to happen? We invite people to come and live in this once lovely city, but they are not warned that they will have to let their gardens die, and watch as their street trees shrivel and die. Not a good look and environmentally a disaster. Our government said it had no idea this was coming. What utter rubbish. We have now had 12 consecutive years of below average rainfall, and rising temperatures. The mouth of the Murray closed over for the first time, twenty eight years ago in 1981. They couldn't see this coming? They really do treat us like mushrooms. And we are getting angry as hell. March 2010 is going to be a watershed indeed.