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Letters: Do the hospital and fire departments have tanks for water?

'We are already unseasonably dry, although we might have a wet June, but with all the new housing popping up on the Coast, what are their plans when we run out this summer? If it carries on like this for another month or two, it’s inevitable. Military? Contract tanker trucks?'
Coast Reporter
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Editor: 

I just paid my water taxes and I have a question: what do Sechelt council and the SCRD reps plan to do when the water runs out this summer? 

We are already unseasonably dry, although we might have a wet June, but with all the new housing popping up on the Coast, what are their plans when we run out this summer? If it carries on like this for another month or two, it’s inevitable. Military? Contract tanker trucks? Desalination plants? Does the hospital have its own tanks? 

Has the province got any plans for forest fire-fighting without water (75 per cent or so are man-caused so it’s likely we will have one)? If you rely on sprinklers inside your house to protect you from fire, what if you have a fire and there is no water? I wonder what your insurance company will say? 

Just curious. 

Ken Dibnah, Sechelt