"WATER IS NO LONGER SOMETHING WE CAN TAKE FOR GRANTED"

This is the title in "From the Editor" column in tomorrow's Woolwich Observer (pg. 12) Steve Kannon points out the relationship between global warming and water shortages that will result from it. He also quotes Donald Burn a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Burn seems to favour a pipeline to one of the Great Lakes as we continue to grow and because he feels our groundwater supplies are almost maxed out. Finally Dr. Burns feels that Canada as a whole will experience both more floods and droughts due to global warming and that Waterloo region will not be exempt from these impacts. Perhaps the biggest impact of Steve's article is the now obvious truism that we can no longer take water for granted. Secondly I would suggest that our groundwater can be maxed out both due to quantity as well as quality. We must continue to strive to restore our local groundwater here in Elmira to drinking standards or better.