The Editor,
I find it extremely ironic that there is no water shortage in desert countries where rain is a scarce commodity but in Vancouver, Canada's third most rainy city, with 161 rainy days a year and rivers sending millions of gallons of water per minute to the ocean, we are facing a potential stage 4 water restrictions.
Under such restrictions, we would be heavily penalized for trying to save our beloved flowers, fruit trees, veggies and lawns from thirst and would helplessly watch them turn brown and wither.
Perhaps we have to think outside the box — or outside the reservoir — in our water-management strategy.
We don't need fancy desalination equipment to convert sea water into fresh water, like most arid countries and cruise ships do. We only need someone to think of a solution to harness our limitless natural resource, send it to a filtration plant and distribute it to homes, businesses and farms, or bottle it for export.
David Choo, Coquitlam
