The Editor,
Re. "Water use down after Metro ban on watering" (The Tri-City News, July 24).
According to Darrell Mussato, Metro Vancouver is now basing its water supply estimates on a year with "no water between now and the end of October" in spite of the fact that this has never happened.
Why would Metro choose to base its policies on something that, even according to its estimates, would be a one-in-750-year occurrence?
I'm curious how it would have been able to estimate this likelihood. The use of such meaningless doomsday scenarios only serves to make all meaningful planning impossible.
Do we now estimate that we will receive 15 feet of snow this winter — who cares that this has never happened? — and go out and buy 200 snowplows for Metro?
As I write this letter, I can hear the rain dripping off my roof outside. The recent "drought" and Metro's accompanying response has only served to further undermine its credibility as planners for the future of this growing region.
Murdoch Coe, Coquitlam
