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Letters: Why are we measuring what we don’t have?

'My water bill arrived last week. Over the last few years it has gone from approximately $250  a year to $650, a significant increase that is not in line with other increases due to inflation.'
Coast Reporter
Over the shoulder view of someone filling a glass of filtered water right from the tap in the kitchen
Over the shoulder view of senior Asian man filling a glass of filtered water right from the tap in the kitchen at homeAsiaVision / E + / Getty Images

Editor: 

My water bill arrived last week. Over the last few years it has gone from approximately $250  a year to $650, a significant increase that is not in line with other increases due to inflation. On the other hand, my water usage has been restricted more and more each year. It would appear that our elected representatives feel the solution is to eventually increase the water bill to $1,000 a year and we not be allowed to use any of it at all. 

But council has another solution. Install water meters, which were rejected twice by Sechelt residents and against their wishes, spend $9.4 million on these water meters. Wouldn’t the $9.4 million be better spent on building a reservoir to hold the water rather than measuring what we don’t have and are not getting? 

Gordon Bader 

Sechelt