Editor:
Well folks, we now know why the Sunshine Coast has a water problem. Our SCRD planner from 1990-2000 and water planner from 2000-2002 still thinks all is well with the current system. It was back in 2000 that the SCRD should have been planning for the future water supply for a developing Sunshine Coast.
If anyone has a water relationship problem, it is the SCRD. The current water system may have been fine in 2000, but with ongoing development, we need a new and more reliable water source for now and well into the future. Leave Chapman Lake to feed Chapman River for the poor salmon that try to spawn there every year.
It is fine to talk about water meters once we get a reliable water source. With more people moving to the Sunshine Coast, trying to grow fruits and vegetables and industries requiring water to exist, to suggest we have a water relationship problem seems to be a misunderstanding of the problem. None of the authorities want to stop development, none of the fruits and vegetables want to grow without water, none of the industries requiring water want to shut down for the summer, so what is the solution? There is no solution with the existing water source. What we need is some people with the foresight and commitment to get on with planning and developing a new, reliable water source for the future of the Sunshine Coast.
Brian Hulme, Sechelt
