Editor:
As rampant development is allowed on the Sunshine Coast and developers inhabit councils, hard decisions on the future of water use and storage have to be made. This requires a lot of courage as the council must have the far future in mind, not the present profit everyone wants.
We don’t have far to look for any solutions to water shortages.
I propose that each new structure built has to have a water storage tank attached. Underground, above ground, wherever an architect can imagine to put one and it should be required by the SCRD or town.
As well, each subdivision should have its own water tower.
What is a problem with making the buck stop at the planning stage?
Force developers to add water storage infrastructure to each build and to each subdivision.
Adds to the cost, that’s right.
Just figure it out by asking in historically drought prone areas.
The Australians did it 200 years ago.
Mary Louise Guest, Gibsons
