Opinion

Editor: I find it quite ironic that some people in Mayor Milne’s election camp used the slogan “flush the John” and yet he is one of the players that have put us in the position where we are now advised not to flush the john.

Dear Mayor Milne and Councillors: The proposed $5.2-million metering plan will not solve our water supply problem.

Editor: “User pay” is always an easy answer: toll roads, gasoline tax, water meters – in the hoary rubric of “supply and demand.” Raise the price and they will use less.

Editor: I am responding to the recent article regarding the beautiful garden/farm on Pratt Road in Gibsons (“Food producers fear loss of livelihood,” Aug. 21).

Editor: As former water planner with the SCRD (2000-2002) I’d like to respond to recent statements in the Coast Reporter. The SCRD did not get us to Stage 4. We did. Each of us demands the free flow of water from our taps.

Editor: Re: “SCRD got us to Stage 4” (Editorial, Aug. 21). Any seasoned manager worth his salt – including an editor – understands the adage, “you cannot manage unless you can measure.

Editor: Successive regional district boards and the infrastructure services department of the SCRD have glommed on to the idea that water meters are the easiest way to deal with water consumption, partly because funding for this project can be applie

Editorial

Editor: Imagine my surprise on reading last week’s Coast Reporter (“Emergency water plan in the works”) to see Brian Shoji, general manager of SCRD Infrastructure Services, partially blaming the water shortage on Jason Herz of the Sunshine Coast Cons

Editor: We have the option of perceiving our costly and frustrating experience of water shortage this year as an opportunity.