REGION OF WATERLOO'S REPUTATION MAY GO DOWN THE TOILET...IF THERE'S ENOUGH WATER THAT IS

 Or put a little differently by Samantha Lernout of Citizens for Safe Groundwater "I've lost complete faith in their ability to manage water".  This comment is in Luisa D'Amato's Opinion piece in today's K-W Record titled "Anger deepens in Wilmot over water". Personally I would suggest that while the Region of Waterloo have a long history of saying the right things publicly and indeed of some innovative planning decisions over the decades nevertheless when push comes to shove regional councillors  are and always have been a bunch of environmentally illiterate twits with a self-serving fascination for money, power, authority, economic growth at ALL costs and legacy projects. This is why I worry that they will latch onto the Lake Erie pipeline just like native born leeches latch onto their prey.

Apparently to date the Region have not shared groundwater elevation levels (i.e. metres above sea level-masl) with local councils. What a great way to keep everybody else in the dark while you make up your own numbers. The report on the groundwater elevations for the Wilmot Centre Wellfield has been delayed until April 8/26. Even then the fibbing has not yet ceased as the region apparently still claim that the surreptitious pumping of Wilmot's water since 2019 was only for "testing" purposes. I'm thinking that if I ever get caught robbing a bank my excuse will be that I was only "testing" their security. See how far that gets me.

Another article by Bill Jackson titled "Waterloo Region asks for provincial moratorium on water-taking permits" advises that the Motion put forth a month or so ago by a regional councillor (Barry Vrbanovic?) has actually been passed. That Motion was to direct 50% of all new water capacity to support new development in the region. Geez does that not make abundantly clear how weakly regional councillors prioritize water for everybody over more profits for the development and building industries? That Motion is a direct result of lobbying by those industries and how quickly councillors respond to them versus to all the rest of us who really by now just want to flush our politicians down the toilet if only we had the water to do so.