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Editor: I’m not flushing my toilet. My vegetable garden is dying. My hair needs washing and my dog needs a bath. I am incensed.

Editor: I am a resident of Sechelt and am outraged over the SCRD’s failure to deliver the water that we as “hostage customers” pay for.

Editor: Lower Gibsons gets its water supply from an aquifer. There is enough water for 10,000 people, even under extreme conditions, according to the George Hotel information centre.

To the Chair and Members of the SCRD: Today I bought zucchini, green onions, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, beans and more at a local garden.

Editor: How “comprehensive” is a water plan that results in our gardens burning up? Besides losing local food and landscape beauty, everyone in B.C. now knows we have serious water problems here and our real estate values could plummet.

Editor: For the past few years various regional districts have been increasingly crying that the sky is falling and we’re running out of water. This, in my opinion, is nothing but fear tactics to justify creating another tax grab.

Editor: I have lived in Sechelt for three years and for three years there has been a severe water shortage. There is also a great deal of hand wringing about absolutely nothing. I note with alarm that residential home construction goes on unabated.

Editor: We read a letter recently stating we should have mandatory water restrictions from May 1 to Sept. 30. This brought to light an alarming trend we have seen lately – that we should simply go without many things.