Dear Editor:
According to Colin Baker from the township of Centre Wellington, water use is up 5% despite so many businesses being closed. He warns of water use restrictions and water conservation measures coming.
Meanwhile, the decision about whether Nestlé Waters can get a permit to take water approaches. Not all permits to take water involve water leaving the watershed. In many cases, the water is used and returned to the river or the groundwater.
The exception is a permit to extract water for water bottling. The village of Elora uses about 1.6 million litres per day and that is the amount Nestlé seeks to pump, truck away, bottle and then ship out of the area.
Water leaving a watershed is a definition of a threat to drinking water.
Pumping in the best area to site new municipal wells so badly needed would interfere with these new wells. Water is too precious to have it shipped away for bottling.
Contact your MPP or Minister Jeff Yurek to stress the importance of keeping groundwater safe by not granting a permit to take water that removes this precious water from Centre Wellington.
Donna McCaw,
Elora