Re: “Sewage program boss given $500,000 send-off,” Aug. 1.
Victoria is uniquely blessed by the Sooke Hills providing a virtually inexhaustible reservoir of drinking water. Seattle, our competitor for the tourist trade, has serious water shortages due to the drought.
The Seattle media, jealous of our good fortune and ignorant of the circumstances, launches a campaign against us as being irresponsible and profligate in our use of water. The provincial government, wanting to curry favour with Washington state and recognizing that the rest of the Island and South Coast have serious water problems with the drought, decides to impose Stage 4 watering restrictions on Victoria.
That would never happen, you say — it’s too absurd.
But it is precisely the chain of “logic” that is supporting the building of a sewage plant here in Victoria.
Mike Day
Saanich
