IT APPEARS someone at the Water Corporation believes the waterwise message should be used for all types of flora, including those more questionable plants.

Earlier today, the WA utility sent out a tweet, which has since been deleted, advising West Aussies to embrace the waterwise message by “going easy on water supplies” when tending to their plants such as sunflowers and tea tree.

The important public service announcement was accompanied by a photo featuring Sesame Street’s Ernie watering a pot plant, of the marijuana kind.

Seconds after the tweet went out, it was pounced on by members of the Twittersphere who were only more than happy to share the unfortunate mistake.

According to the Water Corp, the inclusion of Ernie watering the marjuana plant was an innocent mistake.