Editor:
Wow! It sure has been raining a lot! Torrential downpours with water flowing down the streets and rushing out to sea in swollen creeks. Wouldn’t it be great if we had several giant reservoirs to catch this rain so that next summer, when again we’ll have hardly any water, we’ll have a backup supply? Then the residents of Sechelt won’t have to be told, yet again, that we aren’t “allowed” to use what little water there is, water that we pay for? And the irony is that we who live here aren’t supposed to even fill up a birdbath during Stage 4, but tourists staying in the many Air BnB’s and short-term rentals use as much water as they want.
Even if the Powers That Be manage to somehow increase the water supply, don’t they realize that there will never be enough supply if they keep on building huge developments that suck up water? So, one obvious, common-sense solution to having maybe enough water for residents to use and for fire protection, would be to stop building.
Cecilia Ohm-Eriksen, Sechelt
