WakeUp Raleigh: We Need a Water Plan
Clean and adequate drinking water is vital to our community’s health. As Wake County’s population doubles to a projected 1.5 million by 2025, Raleigh’s water supply may not be sufficient if current growth, consumption rates and droughts continue. Growth must be balanced by cost-effective management choices. Planning for future water needs includes both expanding water supplies and reducing water demand. New water supplies should be cost-shared between current and future utility customers.
We the undersigned respectfully request that the Raleigh City Council:
1. Create a Water Stewardship Advisory Board (made up of stakeholders and water experts) to advise the Council on ways to ensure cost-effective, safe and plentiful long-term water supplies.
2. Re-assess current local water capacity using historical drought as a benchmark.
3. Implement cost-effective measures for regional water management, including conservation.
4. Set fair water and sewer fees that cover the costs of new development.
5. Promote transparency in utility system planning and funding.
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Kermit
05/11 12:55 AM
You guys are criticizing these people for how they’re dealing with assholes. You don’t know what else they’ve tried, or why they felt it necessary to paint those signs on their planters. None of you seem to know anything besides what’s in these two photos.
No one should have to tell people not to sit on their planters. It’s common courtesy. How many of you hang out on strangers yards? How many of you have picnics on other people’s lawns uninvited? These people have been forced to deface their own property, and you guys are giving them grief for it. Classy.
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Kermit
05/11 12:56 AM
What the?? I didn’t do that…
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Kermit
05/11 12:59 AM
Maybe I did… who knows? My comment obviously belongs on the No Sitting post. Internet, what?
On topic: Rain barrels, yay! Carry on.
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