Thanks letter writer Trevor Wicks (‘Plan for the future of water and work,’ The NEWS, June 23), you hit it on the head. I remember the comments about concerns for water before the building of The Beach Club. The standard pro-vote comment was: “we have lots of water — development should not be concerned with water availability.” That was under a decade ago.
We should be very concerned with available potable water and how it is used. Now we are going to pump water, at considerable cost, into aquifers that have not been proven to me to be secure and then pump it out at considerable cost to again be purified for human consumption. The only place that gravity plays a role in this water cycle is when it runs down the drains.
People have to wake up to the fact that water is, and will continue to be, an enormous concern to those that have their eyes open and are aware that water allows us to live.
Keep water in the public domain (see French Creek) and ensure that our governments fulfill their mandate by creating rules that will ensure the best chance of having water in the future.
To blindly surge ahead under the impression that all is well and we should not negatively affect progress is very short sighted. In 2009, I was visiting Las Vegas and was astounded by the ever growing 5,000-10,000-home subdivisions on the North side, drawing water from Lake Mead to make the desert livable.
A levy of $25,000 was added to residential hook-ups to help stem the dwindling water supply. Nothing changed and Lake Mead and all its infrastructure are now in dire straits 15 years later. I hope all council members and members of water boards think further ahead than their own personal term of office. Try to get a grasp on the potential future.
Bob TritschlerParksville
