Editor:
I read your article about the ongoing installation of water meters in Sechelt. A friend likes to call them leak detectors and your first paragraph highlighted just how effective these “leak detectors” can be: “Six homes in the Sechelt area were leaking the approximate equivalent of 500 homes’ worth of water every day.”
This is a stunning volume of water and certainly makes we wonder if we really have a water shortage at all. What if our local governments were to fix these leaks as soon as possible thus likely saving millions of litres of water? Wouldn’t this be much less costly than spending millions of dollars on new reservoirs?
I am reminded of a first-hand example where a friend in Roberts Creek thought he had an artesian well on his property but once a water meter was installed he found out it was actually a serious leak. In all those months just how much water –– processed water at that –– leaked out?
Cheers,
Alan Sirulnikoff, Gibsons
