Editor:
I am astonished how many people are so short-sighted about local farms getting to water during Stage 3. If we don’t let farms water so we can buy food then they will go out of business. If they go out of business that means we don’t have local places to get produce. Some of you will be smug enough to say we will just get it from the grocery store. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re not the only place on the planet with water shortages. What happens when we don’t have local farms and we don’t have produce in the grocery stores?
Then there is the absolutely stupid suggestion that water should be pay-by-use. Do you have any idea the consequences of such a thing? It means that rich people will use as much as they want and the rest of us will be left scrimping and saving just to have drinking water. Dumb idea.
The biggest excuse I’ve heard to keep lawn watering is if we have a fire there is less chance that my house will burn down. Do I really have to point out that if we are at the stage where we are at risk for fires, we are already usually on stage 3 and not allowed to water lawns anyways?
What shouldn’t be allowed is the wasteful use of watering lawns when every single year we have water shortages. The continual approval of developments is also ridiculous. Why can’t we insist these developments at least incorporate gray water recycling? The technology is out there.
Alicia Passmore, Gibsons
