We live in a desert

This seems to surprise the people who persist every summer by watering their grass to keep it green and washing their cars.

Down the road from my house is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen in Kamloops. Why? Because it incorporates the climate we live in by having a rocky sand look to it: a garden that does not need watering.

My point?

Water meters might be the answer we are looking for. An article in the Kamloops Daily News “City OKs plan for water meters,” outlines how the city council decided in a majority vote to enforce water meters.

Mayor Peter Milobar said it was the most definitive vote to a decades-old controversial issue.

As a result there is a posting also on Kamloops about how democracy is dead because city council overthrew a referendum against water meters. But essentially this is what democracy is. The people vote in who they want to represent them and the councilors decide what is best for the people.

What is best for the people in water conservation.

Has no one noticed how scary low the river is this year?

The blog “Welcome to your Kamloops” presents a post called Water meters 101 which discusses Kamloops high water consumption rates.

Water meters are necessary in the desert where people want their cars clean and their lawns green.