Re: “For Victoria’s watersheds, fires would be catastrophic,” May 7.
Given the inevitable global warming from climate change, it is simply a matter of when, not if, the fire occurs in the Victoria watershed, as feared by Ted Robbins, general manager of integrated water services for the Capital Regional District.
Robbins states that the cost for a suitable water-filtration plant would be in the “tens of millions of dollars at a minimum.” Wouldn’t installing such a filtration plant be a better use of funds than the highly questionable need for a sewage-treatment plant, a plant (or plants) that will likely cost more than a billion dollars, and which, according to science, as opposed to opinion, will provide no noticeable benefit whatsoever?
It is time we planned for the inevitable changes that will occur to our environment because of climate change, changes that will dramatically alter our weather patterns and rainfall. We have limited resources, and simply cannot afford to squander those resources on projects because of a desire to be politically correct.
Phil Morris
North Saanich
