Jun152009
threatened with a watery death
Filed under RANT ALERT by morrolesssocks at 12:32 pm on Jun 15 2009
Yes our beloved local water supply is still under threat so, as you’ll see from mirln’s blogs, we have begun the campaign.
Yes – i can hear lots of people saying “but they’ll do what they want anyway” – maybe so, but you’ve gotta stand up for what you believe in. When we were wee mirln and i thought our water was better than bottled stuff and we even had plans to have a stall in the summer time selling bottles of our water to thirsty tourists and for much less than a bottle of the spring stuff. Ok, so we didn’t know we couldn’t sell public water, but that’s how much we believed in the local product!
Mostly i take issue with Scottish Water’s duplicity. They have presented us with three options – refurb the current water works, rebuild a new one or lay the pipe, but in fact the first option was not an option at all as they say it is way beyond the refurb stage and the second isn’t a considered option either as they say it’s too high a cost – so hey presto! Its number three!
Because we’ve been stamping our feet about this in the media now as well, SW seem to be changing tack saying, for the first time throughout these proposals, that our local water supply cannot support the community! Well there are only about 32 more people since the 1991 census, so i hardly think they’re using it all. Mind you mirln and i have just moved back – maybe we’re crippling the loch?!
Anyway, as i said, you gotta do what you feel is right, even if you face being smacked down by the big bad.
…and we’ve collected signatures from a third of the community already and it hasn’t been a week since we went live with the petition.
That’s mainly been me for the last week – water and work, and a bit of turning a year older too…scary potatoes!
And i got me a bike! It’ll be the same strain on the old knees no doubt, but an easier way of getting to the Bressa Ferry in the morning!
1 taddoeon 15 Jun 2009 at 6:48 pm
oh how i envy you–being able to drink water out of tap and it actually tasting like water. here its disgusting–it is very hard,taste of bleach etc. yes ,i know,people in developing countries would be grateful to have the luxury of having tap water,but its seem stupid to put so much chemicals in our water supply’s. Keep fighting the bureaucrats,girls;