I was trying to convince the Water Committee to not approve a bylaw that would lock in the funding that was targeted for Water Meters and then Water Conservation. The main point was that they had been tricked into starting that funding by incorrect information provided by the RD. I have shown, as have others, that we do not have, and never have had, a water problem:
- There is lots of it, too much at some times
- We have the infrastructure to store and deliver it
- We operate within our annual and maximum day licence limits and even are allowed to use more
The written documents that formed part of my presentation to the Water Committee on May 17, 2011 are [here]. They show
- The public and politicians were tricked by Regional District statements and intensive advertising to believe that we used far more water than the rest of BC and Canada. Their goal was to get approval for Water Meter and Conservation projects.
- That our water use is not excessive, in fact we are more water efficient that the BC average.
- We are operating well within our water licence limits. Since we are using even less water that in the early 2000's our infrastructure is more than adequate to meet our needs.
- Our water use per capita has reduced substantially over the decade
- We should stop wasting vast sums of money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) on advertising, water barrels etc., water enforcment to force us to use even less water.
- It is pointless – we are not saving water – it just gets dumped into the ocean.
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