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Editorial

Editor: Imagine my surprise on reading last week’s Coast Reporter (“Emergency water plan in the works”) to see Brian Shoji, general manager of SCRD Infrastructure Services, partially blaming the water shortage on Jason Herz of the Sunshine Coast Cons

Editor: We have the option of perceiving our costly and frustrating experience of water shortage this year as an opportunity.

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Editor: I’m not flushing my toilet. My vegetable garden is dying. My hair needs washing and my dog needs a bath. I am incensed.

Editor: I am a resident of Sechelt and am outraged over the SCRD’s failure to deliver the water that we as “hostage customers” pay for.

Editor: Lower Gibsons gets its water supply from an aquifer. There is enough water for 10,000 people, even under extreme conditions, according to the George Hotel information centre.

To the Chair and Members of the SCRD: Today I bought zucchini, green onions, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, beans and more at a local garden.

Editor: How “comprehensive” is a water plan that results in our gardens burning up? Besides losing local food and landscape beauty, everyone in B.C. now knows we have serious water problems here and our real estate values could plummet.