Editor:
I have only one question: What if Bryan Shoji’s $5.5-million plan to “modify our behaviour” doesn’t work (seems low if all the necessary infrastructure and leaks are managed)? It seems to me that a lot of very intelligent folks have questioned this water meter plan with some very sound logic. What if our community here on the southern Sunshine Coast isn’t the “modifying type,” as has been the case with other areas in Canada?
What if on some clear, very dry, sunny day in late October, in the not-too-distant future, civil servant No. 1 says to civil servant No. 2, “What the … do you mean we got to go to Stage 5 water restrictions?” and No. 2 says, “Well, if you guys hadn’t kept handing out building permits and water hook-ups like poker chips and the climate scientists had been wrong, then maybe we wouldn’t be in this angry pickle!” No. 1 meekly responds, “Could it be we should have listened to those kooks who had the idea to build a proper dam and reservoir below the watershed and above the high tide mark?”
I’m just saying – what if it doesn’t work?
Jon Van Arsdell, Roberts Creek
