Editor:
I receive a monthly water usage report and it tells me, as does Connie Jordison’s article, that the average daily residential use in all SCRD systems is 1,025 litres per day. No wonder we are running short of water as I simply cannot understand how any family can use that amount of water per day unless they totally ignore the most basic of conservation measures, the most obvious of which is re-using “grey” water from a shower or a wash on the garden or down the toilet.
It is highly hypocritical to point the finger at SCRD for the shortcomings of the water storage situation while at the same time apparently wasting water.
The sooner we go to a full “user pay” system with the water meters already installed the better.
This will reward those who actually do conserve and punish those who do not.
As a matter of full disclosure my wife and I are regularly below 100 litres per day not by depriving ourselves but by way of simple conservation measures.
Buzz Bennett, Gibsons
