Editor:
The regional district said that water meters will reduce water usage. I’m not sure how much more we can reduce. I think that most Coasters are well aware of the potential water shortage every summer. We should not have to worry about what we water our gardens with or how we clean and bathe. We are not a Third World country; we have plenty of resources and the intelligence to figure out how to fix this problem.
I feel that the money for the meters would be better spent on pipelines from other lakes nearby, or water towers north and south of Sechelt. Also, by subsidizing rain barrels for property owners and offering incentives to new builds and businesses to install water harvesting, and grey water recycling systems. Water meters are not going to increase the rainfall or the snow pack! It may, as the regional district mentioned, help detect leaks in the system – but detecting the leak and fixing it is another matter, as we have seen at Kinnikinnick Park where there has been a leak for “a long time” and just like BP couldn’t figure out how to cap the oil well, no one in the district seems to know how to cap the leak or who to hire to do it.
Kim Bajkov, Sechelt
